1. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin ENGINEERING January – June 2005 July – December 2005

2. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin OBJECTIVES Provide more support outside the classroom Increase the learning experience of the students Include online activities on the courses

3. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin RESOURCES Teachers –Person in charge of the class, and to expose all contents of the course Course Assistants –People in charge of the course administration –Also in charge of evaluating all course assignments

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

5. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin COURSES First Semester Second Semester CareerCourse Ingeniería en SistemasInformática III CareerCourse Ingeniería en SistemasCiencias de la Computación VI

6. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin ACTIVITIES DEVELOPED Inductions to students –Inductions were given to all students of the courses to increase the use of the material Course Assistants Certification –All course assistants participated on the GES Course Level 1 –The content developers for this course also received the GES course Level 2

7. 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

8. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin CONTENT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Course Teacher Course Assistants Generating the specific contents for each course Content segmentation Convert Files to docbook GES-ELANE Department Upload the final product to the platform Course Maintenance First Semester

9. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin CONTENT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Course Teacher Course Assistants Generating the specific contents for each course Content segmentation Convert Files to docbook Upload the final product to the platform GES-ELANE DepartmentCourse Maintenance Second Semester

10. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin OBSERVATIONS On the first semester the contents were developed as the course evolved The contents were also uploaded as pdf files, so many students preferred to download the contents instead of reviewing it online By the second semester all content development process was realized by the course assistants

11. Template Developed by Jose A. Fortin FUTURE PLANS Capacitate all new course assistants of all engineering courses Improve all contents developed Develop more courses from these areas –Electronics engineering –Software engineering