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Homogeneity of Engineering Courses from an Assignment Management Model in Virtual Learning Environments

Part of the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems book series (LNNS,volume 607)

Abstract

The management models for assigning courses to professors in higher education have shown the need to involve technologies for the construction of homogeneous virtual classrooms. This work presents a proposal for the creation of pilot virtual classrooms that allow a quick start of the teaching-learning process in first year students, measuring its impact. The objective is to determine the levels of acceptance of pre-existing significant learning resources in large groups of the same subject. The results, collected through a survey of 64 participants who passed the Programming and Linear Algebra course of the Engineering Careers at Universidad Politécnica Salesiana of Guayaquil, in Ecuador, reflect satisfaction values that reach 91%. In addition, the content of the classrooms influences a 94% positivity in learning and a 94% usefulness from the students’ perspective. The limitations found suggest a continuous improvement in the early year’s teacher assignment management model. It is expected to carry out a following study based on the experience of the teachers responsible for the courses in a longitudinal work for the next courses to be offered. This work contributes to the development of good practices in the educational management of higher education institutions.

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  • Virtual classroom
  • Teaching
  • LMS platform

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We would like to thank the staff of the Master in ICT for Education of the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana for the development of this work and the research groups for the research and methodological process, as well as for the accompanying process, the Research Group on Education and Scientific Information, GIEDIC (https://www.investigacion.ups.edu.ec/grupo/giedic/) and the Educational Innovation Group GIETICEA - GIEACI (https://gieaci.blog.ups.edu.ec/).

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  1. Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Alicia Cedeño-Tello & Joe Llerena-Izquierdo

  2. Maestría TIC para la Educación, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Alicia Cedeño-Tello

  3. Grupo de Investigación de Educación e Información Científica, GIEDIC, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Alicia Cedeño-Tello

  4. Grupo de Investigación en Enseñanza-Aprendizaje de las Ciencias para La Ingeniería, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Joe Llerena-Izquierdo

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  2. Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering - CIGIP, Universitat Politècnica de València, Alcoy, Spain

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  3. Rua Imaculada Conceiçao, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná – PUCPR, Curitiba, Brazil

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Cedeño-Tello, A., Llerena-Izquierdo, J. (2023). Homogeneity of Engineering Courses from an Assignment Management Model in Virtual Learning Environments. In: Robles-Bykbaev, V., Mula, J., Reynoso-Meza, G. (eds) Intelligent Technologies: Design and Applications for Society. CITIS 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 607. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24327-1_38

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