Telecommunication proposal for distributed testing process of a specific distance education system: UNA
Distance education is not something else viewed under the crystal of the communication means and the emerging technology of these days. These technologies can shorten teaching and learning distance. The present work intends to give a proposal in a way such, the new technologies are incorporated to improve the main processes of Teaching-learning work. As a matter of fact, it is the Presence Testing Process of a Distance University of Venezuela (UNA) which is based on the writing exam mail delivery to the local centers, through the country, where the student have to attend and take it Nowadays, all the procedures are done in handmade fashion, in a way such, that the students attend to take a written test that are applies them for a supervisor in dates and predetermined places nearby their peace. We have intended to transform the single-way communication (traditional correspondence) of the process referred above, toward an semi-interactive or double-way communication process. The method to reach the goal was based on a technological design of this Process using system analysis and design and a sort of action-research strategy to determine the user information and of communications needs. It was formulated a redesign toward a distributed information system in the processing, data storage and communication arena. Finally, an implantation plan was proposed for the UNA cases in two phases, a short-term and middle term.
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