Title: Implementation of the subject 'Operations Management' on the University of Oviedo's virtual education tool 'Virtual Campus'

Authors: Jose Parreno, Javier Puente, Patricia Ordonez De Pablos, Paolo Priore

Addresses: EPSIG, Edificio Energia, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus Viesques, 33204 Gijon, Spain. ' EPSIG, Edificio Energia, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus Viesques, 33204 Gijon, Spain. ' Department of Business Administration, Universidad de Oviedo, Avd del Cristo, s/n 33.071 Oviedo-Asturias, Spain. ' EPSIG, Edificio Energia, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus Viesques, 33204 Gijon, Spain

Abstract: According to Bologna|s Declaration and consequent introduction of the European Space of Higher Education, virtual educational tools implementation is an almost mandatory task for every University around Europe. Since 1999, Spain|s University of Oviedo has been developing a virtual education tool called |Virtual Campus| to help professors to undertake a new and more modern way of teaching and interacting with students. Implanting a subject in University of Oviedo|s |Virtual Campus| entails a continuous monitoring by the professor of the students performance, as well as adding educational materials to be used by students. In this paper, the design and implementation of the subject |Operations Management| in |Virtual Campus| is addressed. This subject belongs to the fourth year of the Industrial Engineering studies in the University of Oviedo at Gijon. Besides presenting the design and implementation of this subject in |Virtual Campus|, the design, results and conclusions of a survey in which the students had the chance to share their experiences with the use of this virtual educational tool are presented in this work.

Keywords: teaching innovation; virtual education tools; university teaching; educational reform; higher education; Spain; operations management education; virtual campus.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTCS.2009.031061

International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies, 2009 Vol.2 No.2, pp.181 - 192

Published online: 19 Jan 2010 *

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