Corral Abad, EduardoGómez García, María JesúsDíez Jiménez, EfrénMoreno-Marcos, Pedro ManuelCastejón Sisamón, Cristina2021-11-302021-11-302021-11Corral Abad, E., Gómez García, M. J., Diez‐Jimenez, E., Moreno‐Marcos, P. M. & Castejón Sisamon, C. (2021). Improving the learning of engineering students with interactive teaching applications. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 29(6), 1665–1674.1061-3773https://hdl.handle.net/10016/33714Over decades, Mechanical Engineering students often find some difficulties to grasp some contents and/or struggle with some parts of the course. With the increasing development of new technologies, promising innovations can be implemented enhancing learning and improving success rates. In this study, a new learning interactive method is proposed and evaluated using the experience of over 600 students of Mechanical Engineering. This study describes a 4-year experiment based on new interactive applications for education. The experiment has been implemented using E-learning techniques and new technologies (a combination of remote and virtual examples, videos, quizzes, and theory). Specifically, several applications have been programmed to be executed on different devices, such as mobile phones and PC/laptops (Android and Windows). The experiment is applied using small applications that help the students identify the most challenging contents and guide them throughout step-by-step. The main objective of this interactive method is to help students find their lack of knowledge and offer them contents to cover it. These didactic applications are portable and intuitive. Thanks to these interactive applications, it is possible to accomplish better practices of “E-learning” and “Computer Simulation and Animation” together. Since they are portable applications, they allow the student to interact and check conceptual understandings at any place. Students really appreciate this aspect. The results of the course titled Mechanism and Machine Theory have been analyzed during these four last years in which these interactive applications have been offered to the students.10eng© 2021 The Authors. Computer Applications in Engineering Education published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.Atribución 3.0 EspañaComputer simulation and animationEducational gameE-learningInteractive applicationMobile learningresearch articleIngeniería Mecánicahttps://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22415open access166561674Computer Applications in Engineering Education29AR/0000028074