Transforming teaching: uses of e-learning platforms in face-to-face higher education

The vast majority of on-site nature Universities count on e-learning platforms to back up the education and learning processes. The purpose of this article consists of showing the most significant aspects of an investigation carried out for three years (2013-2015) in a Faculty of Engineering and whose objective is to make an approximation to the technological, pedagogical and communicational use that underlie the teaching proposals mediated by the Moodle platform. By means of a mixed, quantitative and qualitative methodology, a questionnaire intended for the teaching staff and peripheral observation of the 144 subjects offered in the School was used as data sources, pertaining to 7 degrees of Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications. The obtained results show us that, after more than one decade of using the platform, a good technological adjustment in the virtual classrooms exists, as well as a gradual pedagogical renovation of the educational proposals and a limited exploitation of the communicational tools.