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Blue Market: A Reproduction of the Industrial Environment in the Classroom (RAIS) Experience

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Conference

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tampa, Florida

Publication Date

June 15, 2019

Start Date

June 15, 2019

End Date

June 19, 2019

Conference Session

Technical Session 4: Modulus Topics 1

Tagged Division

Computers in Education

Page Count

9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--32157

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https://strategy.asee.org/32157

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Raquel Landa Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-4940-0462

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Part-time teacher at Tec de Monterrey since 1999, with a Ph.D. in Education, a Master in Information Technology Management and a Major in Electronic Systems. Currently involved in Innovation projects related to engineering and programming courses.

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Lorena B. Martinez Elizalde Tecnologico de Monterrey

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Cristina Verónica Gonzalez Cordova ITESM

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BS in Computer Science (2001), Master Degree in Computer Science (2003). 15 years of experience in software development, mainly web applications. Diploma in “Project Management Qualified” (PMI, 2006) and “Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET” certification (2004). Cristina has participated in the entire software development process for government and industry in several áreas, like: Ministry of Health (México), Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, TMM, Aeromexico Airlines, VITRO, etc.

Active participation in the process of definition and certification for the company Dextra Technologies (CMM-I level 3). Cristina has also participated as speaker in congresses and symposiums organized by universities in México.

She has seven years of experience teaching in the Department of Computer Science and, since January 2019, she has been the thematic leader of continuous education and consulting of the School of Engineering and Sciences, in the area of information technologies.

Cristina lives in Monterrey, she is married and has a handsome boy and a beautiful girl. She loves play basketball, read a good book and is a caffeine fan.

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Abstract

When analyzing the contents of educational programs in universities it is common to identify that they are disconnected from each other, since, although the curricular design establishes the sequence among them, in general, contents are addressed independently in each of the subjects. This situation motivates teachers to look for innovative ways in which these contents can establish a direct relationship with other subjects, and more so with real-world experiences, this relation can exist either with classes of the same career or with classes of other majors. Presenting students these relationships in the university helps them to contextualize the learning and provides meaning, empowering them to apply this knowledge in their professional life.

This last concept is the central point of the strategy of Reproduction of the Industrial Environment in the Classroom (RAIS) that is based on the integrated management of knowledge to build, create, make, innovate and produce projects in a formal learning environment. With the concepts of content integration and the RAIS strategy, a project named Blue Market was designed. Blue Market involves, at the time, students from three different subjects (Video game Design, Computer Graphics and Digital Audio Systems for Web and Mobiles) from three different academic programs. This experiment focused on the development of a video game as the central project and included students from the classes of Computer Graphics and Digital Audio Systems for Web and Mobiles as providers for the videogame’s teams.

A pre and post questionnaire was used as the instrument to identify the student’s perception improvement on different project management and development skills and their satisfaction with the methodology. The first results of this experience indicate that students feel motivated and interested in this learning method.

Landa, R., & Martinez Elizalde, L. B., & Gonzalez Cordova, C. V. (2019, June), Blue Market: A Reproduction of the Industrial Environment in the Classroom (RAIS) Experience Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32157

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