Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin IDEA January – March 2005 April – June 2005

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin OBJECTIVES Improve the learning process of the IDEA students Provide students with more learning contents

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin RESOURCES Area Coordinators –Develops and provides the content of each course Tutors –People in charge to distribute the course Research & Development Department –Responsible of the course maintenance and to resolve all problems about the platform

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin IDEA SCENARIO Number of students 600 Level Bachelor Computer Access UG / Study Centers Internet Connection Broadband, 128Kbps or more Final evaluation Offline Platform Usage Partial Type of learning Blended Learning

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin COURSES First trimester Total: 6 courses AREACOURSE AutomationAutomatización de Oficinas I AutomationControl y Evaluación de Proyectos I FinancesAdministración Financiera I MathematicsMatemática General AdministrationAdministración Moderna I AnalysisAnálisis Final I

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin COURSES Second Trimester Total: 7 courses AREACOURSE AutomationAutomatización de Oficinas II AutomationControl y Evaluación de Proyectos II FinancesAdministración Financiera II ManagementTeoría Gerencial I ManagementNegocios Internacionales AdministrationAdministración Moderna II AnalysisAnálisis Final II

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin ACTIVITIES DEVELOPED Inductions to students –Inductions were given to students on the different trimesters in order to increase the use of the material Coordinators Certification –All coordinators involved received the GES course LEVEL 1 –Several coordinators participated on a content development demonstration Seminars –Several coordinators participated on the seminars provided by the UC3M referring to content development and course methodology Inductions to IDEA personnel –To help students many tutors received inductions about how to access the contents and how to use these

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin CONTENT DEVELOPMENT Docbook –XMLMIND EDITOR was used to transform documents to the docbook format Content Packaging –RELOAD EDITOR was used to pack all contents The reason of why these applications its because not all content developers were familiar with the XML language and how to create the contents step-by-step

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin CONTENT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS First trimester IDEA coordinatorsGenerating the specific contents for each course Content segmentation R&D DepartmentConvert files to docbook Upload the final product to the platform Course Maintenance

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin CONTENT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Second Trimester IDEA coordinatorsGenerating the specific contents Content Segmentation Convert files to docbook R&D DepartmentUpload the final product to the platform Course Maintenance

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin TROUBLESHOOTING Internet Explorer –Several problems were reported about platform access Communication –Many tutors were not informed Connectivity Docbook Transformation –The adaptation of use to this new applications caused a delay in some cases of the content delivery

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin OBSERVATIONS Not all tutors informed their students about the contents Not all tutors had a direct access to the contents By the second trimester all content production was developed by the area coordinators In order to get to the student we must first approach the tutor

Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin FUTURE PLANS New courses will be developed to capacitate all tutors in the use of the contents and platform (December 2005) –An online course on how to use the dotLRN platform and its services –Online courses for tutors to enforce their knowledge about the course content –New courses for support in areas where students might need more help