Educational Innovation in the Computer Architecture Area

In the present work authors give a detailed description of the previously performed analysis carried out to formulate a concrete educational innovation project proposal in the area of the Computer Architecture, more specifically, in the Computer Structure and Architecture sub-module. That project was submitted to the competitive Educational Innovation Projects Call 2013-2015 of the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU, Spain), and fortunately, it was elected and granted by the Education Advisory Service of the same university. This project follows the the way started by another similar project but in other knowledge area of Electronics in the same University College. In this paper, the specific problems of the Computer Structure and Architecture sub-module in the University College of Vitoria-Gasteiz (that is the place where it is being carried out) are analyzed, the framework in a wide sense is described (University, University College and syllabus) and the specificities of the current project are explained. All the analysis is done taking into account the competences point of view (both specific for each subject and transversal for the degree).