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This paper presents the students' point of view about the competencies of a good university teacher, obtained from a questionnaire based on the teaching competencies stated and validated according to the REDU2012 Project. 10302 undergraduate students and 1700 master students from 15 universities answered through an online formulary suitable also for mobile devices. The importance that has been given to the 16 characteristics defined in the questionnaire is remarkably high: all of them are qualified either as good or as excellent. That the teacher explains clearly the subject's content is the best-scored characteristic, followed by the motivation encouragement. Both characteristics are highly rated by students, with no regard of their original areas of knowledge, their year or their sex. The lowest rated skills in order to be a good teacher are the encouragement of participation and of collaborative work and the coordination with teachers of other subjects, although their scores exceed also 7.5 (in a scale from 0 to 10). When relating the research results with the teaching competencies we observe that the highest assessment goes to communicative competencies, interpersonal relationship competencies and methodological competencies. Instead, competencies of planning and management of the teaching and teamwork competencies are less rated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the effect of massive access to higher education on teaching at a public Argentine Law School. It describes the general background of the phenomenon and outlines the main consequences of teaching Law in overcrowded classrooms. Then, it defines the underlying epistemology, the theories of learning and the predominant educational approach applied by law school professors. Next, it observes how expanded access to Law School defies the educational goals of the institution. It concludes by offering an alternative educational proposal to still achieve the objectives in overcrowded classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]