EVALUATION OF THE RESULTS OF THE VIRTUAL LEARNING OBJECT FOR IMPROVING WATER MANAGEMENT AND CONSUMPTION HABITS IN THE INHABITANTS OF THE UPPER BOGOTÁ RIVER BASIN

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to describe the results of the evaluation of a virtual learning object to help improve the consumption habits and management of water resources in the inhabitants of the upper reaches of the Bogotá River. The evaluation was developed in 4 stages.Stages 1 and 2 evaluated 20 users with the profile of students of the systems engineering program at the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia.Stage 3 evaluated 10 users with advanced knowledge of the problems and the management of at least one computer system in the upper basin of the Bogotá river. Stage 4 evaluated 20 users inhabitants of the upper basin of the Bogotá river. The surveys of stages 1, 2, 3 and 4 were divided into 5 dimensions distributed by groups of questions that evaluate the perception of the developer and the users. This information generated positive results allowing to visualize the scope of the functionality and the perception of the users, additionally evaluated the impact of the application on the different types of users for the application of these systems in the upper Bogotá river basin, allowing generating important conclusions that establish the evaluation of the virtual educational environments as important supports in teaching, not only of environmental systems, and that should be evaluated by the users that integrally interact with the system. The above process allows for establishing essential conclusions resulting from the evaluation of virtual educational environments as necessary supports in the teaching process, not only of environmental systems; it establishes clear parameters for measuring virtual learning objects in which different professionals are involved in the development of educational environments and people in the learning process.