Estudio de la Ingeniería de Diseño para la Implementación de Entornos Virtuales de Aprendizaje Orientado a Niños de Séptimo de Básica

Abstract

By means of Design Engineering a virtual learning environment was carried out, the one which improves the teaching process and will offer a training for children from the seventh year basic education in the city of Riobamba, through an online course where they will learn how to handle the Adobe-Photoshop Design software in a fun and didactic way. The design was defined before a previous study which was carried out by using the inductive method for the information research; analytical method in surveys leaded to children and teachers about the educational needs, and for the product development process DIUMPA (User Interface Design for Multimedia Learning.) methodology was used. For the development of the virtual environment the Moodle educational software was used, which has allowed to structure the course content. It was also necessary to use another software packages such as 3D Max, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Audition, Prezi, Voky that helped in the overall design and multimedia content development. The result was an interactive virtual environment between the course content and a virtual range, the one which permitted the children to make their learning range in a real time, where they developed different tasks, they learned through games, and the assimilation of the contents was gotten by 95% all of tbis was carried out in an interesting, easy and practical way. This new teaching system will become an aid and complement for the traditional teaching process, contributing in this form to the educational development in Riobamba, for this reason it is recommended to have the necessary resources for its development, such as: computer connected to the Web.