Sistema de información académica para la modalidad de educación abierta y a distancia /

Abstract

The Mode of Open and Distance Education of the Technical University of Loja, provides a service of Higher Education to more than 17 thousand students nationally and internationally. One of the main characteristics of the training professionals who choose to study in this type of studies is the lack of time necessary to attend a classroom for different reasons, among others, because they are people who perform some work activity for Which require an information service that allows them to access at any time, from any place and in a direct way to the information they need to know. For this reason, the Academic Information System for the Open and Distance Education Mode is developed which will allow students to be well informed about the status and evolution of their student records, so that the student of this modality Studies, you can access certain types of information, from any point where you are. The Academic Information System for Open and Distance Modality, SlA .-. MAD, is basically a portal accessible via the World Wide Web and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) whose objective is to provide the student with the service of access to information as Notes, balances, validated matters, advisory hours and evaluation dates. In addition, according to time schedules, the automatic sending of e-mails to previously signed students, either to their conventional mail address or to the mobile e-mail address, is performed. In addition to the consultation service, a WEB-based management tool is developed so that the administrator can perform his tasks of control and management of the system.