Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

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Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Unit 1: Stage 0

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e

Academic Unit Ingeniería
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name Automatización Industrial
Course Code 299013
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No ☒
enabled
Number of 3
Credits

2. Description of the activity

Numbe
Type of the
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☒ r of 2
activity:
weeks
Moment of Unit
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: monitoring and evaluation
activity: 25 points
environment
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity: September
activity: August 23th 2018 5th 2018
Competences to develop:

• The student recognizes an automation system by describing the

concepts and characteristics of it.
Topics to develop:

• History of automation.
• Foundations of automation.

Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

The project-based learning strategy, adopted for in this course, involves
3 stages: 1) Organization and resources, 2) Design, and 3)
Development. In this activity guide, a stage 0 (introduction to the
course) has been added. This stage presents the foundations of
industrial automation, including its history, terminology and
characteristics.
Activities to develop

The student has to create a conceptual map in this activity. The

methodology (or steps) to create this map is described as follows:

1) Reading of concepts:

- Read the text of historical review, control system fundamentals,

examples of control systems (pages 1 - 10 of this document).

Remark: This reference is contained in the knowledge environment

(UNIT 1).

2) Create a conceptual map of the history and terminology of a

control system. This conceptual map has to be clearly described.

All activities described in this guide are developed in

three environments: knowledge, collaborative learning
and monitoring and evaluation.

Environmen • In the knowledge environment, the student can find

t for the the references of this document.
developme • In the collaborative learning environment, the
nt student finds the collaborative forum, to be used to
share individual results.
• In the monitoring and evaluation environment, the
students submit its final report (or document).

Individual:
Products to
deliver by Each student must share this information in the
student collaborative forum:
 - The conceptual map of the history and terminology
of a control system.

Collaborative:

By using the collaborative forum, all the students have

to consolidate this information:

- A conceptual map.

This conceptual has to be included in a document, which

represents the collaborative work. This document must
content:

• Abstract.
• Introduction.
• The conceptual map with its description.
• Conclusions.
• Bibliography (in APA standard).

After doing this document, it has to be submitted into

the monitoring and evaluation environment. The
submission deadline is indicated in the course agenda.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

The activities indicated in this document can be

organized by the students as follows:
Planning of
1) Create a table containing the contact information of
activities for
all group members. This table might include phone
the
number, email, Skype, WhatsApp, etc.
development
of
2) Create a list of agreements. This list describes the
collaborative
tasks that must be carried out by each student.
work
3) The list of agreements should be completed with
the information that was shared in the forum, for
 each student. This list can optionally be annexed to
the final report.

4) Manage your time. Participate in all activities in the

forum. At least, 3 times per week you should access
to the collaborative forum for sharing your
opinions.

Leader: the person who commands all activities in the

group. He provides supervision, direction and
motivation in individual and collaborative activities.

Communicator: the person who communicates all

aspects between the tutor and the group. He also
communicates appreciations taken from the leader.
Roles to
perform by
Reporter: the person who collects documents /
the student
information of the group. He transmits this data in the
in the
report that is sent to the tutor.
collaborative
group
Props man: the person who selects and acquires tools
or materials for the group.

Time controller: the person who monitors the running

time of the activities so that the established deadline
(indicated in the agenda) can be fulfilled.

Student has his/her own roles and responsibilities to

deliver the products (final report) to the director/tutor
of the course. These responsibilities and roles are listed
Roles and as follows:
responsibilit
y for the • Messages to be written the collaborative forum have
delivery of to be transmitted sequentially, starting from the
products by initial (or welcoming) post sent by the tutor/director
students of the course.
• Check the course agenda often.
• Check the techniques to write up scientific
documents (see web toolbox).
 • Be aware that all digital content associated to this
course has its own intellectual property (see web
toolbox).
• The references to be included in tour document must
have the form of APA standard (3th version).
The references contained in the final report has to be
Use of in APA standard. Students has access to the APA
references information in this link: http://normasapa.com/

Plagiarism is defined as a substantial copy of

Plagiarism documents (or others works), assuming that the copy
policy is as its own. Students must be aware of severe
sanctions, in the case of plagiarism, imposed by UNAD.

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation Rubric
Activity Individual Collaborati
☒ ☒
type: Activity ve Activity
Moment
Unit
of the
Initial ☒ Intermedia ☐ Final ☐
evaluatio
te:
n
Performance levels of the individual
Assessed activity Score
Aspects
High score Media score Low score
The
The conceptual conceptual
map had a map had not a
clear structure clear structure
and and The
Conceptu
description, description, conceptual 10
al map
according to and it does not map was not points
the follow the presented
methodology complete
indicated in methodology
this document indicated in
this document
 (up to 10 (up to 5 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed
activity Score
Aspect
High score Media score Low score
Final report
Final report included
included the partially the Final report
contents contents was not
Final 10
indicated in the indicated in the submitted
report points
activity guide activity this
guide
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The
The
participations
participations There were
on the
on the not
collaborative
collaborative participations
Participati forum were
forum served in the 5
on in the insufficient to
to construct collaborative points
forum construct the
the conceptual forum
conceptual
map
map
(Up to 5 (Up to 3 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
25
Final score
points