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

2. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin OBJECTIVES Improve the learning experience Provide a better support for students outside the country Create more online activities for these virtual courses

3. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin FACED SCENARIO Number of students 40 Level Master Computer Access UG / Home Internet Connection Broadband, 128Kbps or more Final evaluation Offline Platform Usage Partial Type of learning Blended Learning

4. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin RESOURCES Teachers –The teachers are in charge of the lecture for each of the topics of the course Course Assistants –They are the ones in charge of the platform administration and to administrate the online activities

5. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin COURSES Planificación Estratégica Programación Lineal 1 Teoría de Decisiones 1 Contabilidad Gerencial Análisis Estadístico de la Calidad Economía Financiera 3 Informática Aplicada a la Educación Elaboración de Informes de Proyectos Educativos Calidad Educativa I Programación Lineal II Reingeniería Teoría de decisiones II Administración Financiera Fiabilidad Modelación y Simulación I

6. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin CONTENT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FACED Faculty Create the docbooks Administer courses and content display Upload the contents to the platform R & D Department Provide support to teachers and students

7. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin ACTIVITIES DEVELOPED Teachers Certification –Teachers participated on the certification –Content developers were assisted with their doubts concerning the applications Seminars –Several members of FACED participated on the seminars provided by the UC3M referring to content development and course methodology

8. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin OBSERVATIONS Many of the students preferred to download the material instead of reviewing it online Problems were registered about how to structure lessons that were too long The mainly online activity were the forums The docbooks were created on the march, by the end of each week a new content was uploaded to the platform referring to the topics of the class

9. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin FUTURE PLANS Continue the content development process in order to present better contents Modify the existing contents to improve the presentation Develop more online activities, taking as start the elearning methodology course