Blended Learning in Econometrics: Crossing Borders Between Learning and Doing

Resumen

The new Economics and Business Degrees adapted to the European Higher EducationArea (EHEA) must face the challenge of training individuals capable of analyzing and interpretingthe functioning of the economy improving the well-being of the society. Therefore, Econometricsshould be considered as a strategic tool which is narrowly related with some main competencessuch as information management, problem solving or decision-making.In this paper we summarize our experiences based in Blended Learning, which provide severalinteresting findings, based on both students´and teachers´ opinions. We have experienced thatdoing Econometrics is a good way of learning Econometrics, as it proves the teamwork developedwith Gretl, which has shown to be a suitable, user-friendly, flexible, open-source and accuratesoftware.Furthermore, according to students online surveys, blended learning provides outsandingadvantages in the achievement of competences as problem solving, applying knowledge inpractice, computing and information management and teamwork.