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managerial skills in undergraduate IT students is
mandatory to create a management force capable of
achieving this. Using a traditional learning
environment it is very difficult to achieve this
learning objective. Students nowadays are digital
natives; our initiative is an opportunity to take
advantage of this.
We have presented an integrated learning
environment that uses LMS, VLO, forums, wikis
and a simulation game to support the development
of IT managerial skills in undergraduate IT students.
The LMS incorporates ICT in a natural and
controlled way. Each ICT has a specific educational
objective; VLO reinforce basic organizational and
business process management concepts; thematic
forums provide a meeting place for students to
express concerns, successes and to share their
learning experiences; Wikis make possible
collaborative work; the simulation game develops
managerial skills to optimize business processes.
A collateral benefit of LMS implementation is
the gathering information about student behavior of
their autonomous work. With this information we
can identify challenges and achievements of
students.
The incorporation of ICT tools in learning
environment proposed in this work is aligned with
developments in the real world. Students using our
learning environment will be better skilled to exploit
these tools in their future work and help
organizations improve their usage of these tools.
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