Learning Experience Design in Engineering Education

Interaction experiences with students are considered one of the key aspects to achieve an effective digital transformation in higher education classrooms. This paper presents some successful experiences carried out at the School of Industrial and Civil Engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Specifically, in “Las Cocinas” workshop, a working and cooperative learning space. This workshop achieves open educational practices through the implementation of Maker Education and Students as Partners methodologies. Students from different educational levels work on the development of social innovation projects alongside other members of the university community and external collaborators. They participate in co-creative processes for designing learning experiences, both for other university students or different educational levels. The use of digital manufacturing technologies together with development and content management tools are essential to achieve quality engineering education, since they put into practice both technical competencies and soft skills.