• DocumentCode
    270717
  • Title

    A method of assessing academic learning experiences in virtual learning environments.

  • Author

    Hervás, A. ; García, F.B. ; Peñalvo, F.J.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Mar-14
  • Firstpage
    219
  • Lastpage
    226
  • Abstract
    Adapting curricula to the European space for higher education has been an opportunity for Spanish universities to perform a new approach to the structure of their degrees. In this process takes a special importance incorporate new technologies to the university system, a task that had been initiated in an isolated way in the last years of XX century, but now became in a strategic action for universities. In institutions of higher education, there is a growing movement towards the use of e-Learning platforms to support access to educational or academic activities, also known as "Virtual Learning Environments, VLE" or "Learning Management Systems LMS, to support access to educational resources, the academic activities or the incorporation of new methodologies, however, without an assurance of quality, this effort and investment would not be productive. In this paper a method of assessing a virtual university experience is proposed, which allows the use of a quality model, incorporating a web tool to effectively manage both the design process, and the implementation and presentation of results. In addition, there are two case studies with different scopes and purposes, obtaining comparable results that support the efficiency of the proposed method.
  • Keywords
    Internet; computer aided instruction; LMS; VLE; Web tool; academic learning experiences assessment; learning management systems; virtual learning environments; virtual university experience assessment; Computer aided instruction; Electronic learning; Europe; Least squares approximations; Software development; Virtual learning; Career development; computer aided instruction; distance learning; educational activities; educational institutions; quality management; teaching/learning strategies;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Latin America Transactions, IEEE (Revista IEEE America Latina)
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1548-0992
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TLA.2014.6749541
  • Filename
    6749541