Experience of distance education through the use of ICT in the training of urban and landscape designers for the development of territorial management programs

Abstract

The Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, within its Institutional Development Plan 2013-2023, has incorporated training spaces and environments that respond to the dimensions of the University Model of Comprehensive Training and this has allowed to bring teachers and students closely to the functions and applications to the various Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that have been useful in the teaching-learning processes, contents that are managed through resources and virtual spaces accessible mainly through the Internet. The experience within the Faculty of Habitat in the Career of Urban and Landscape Design with the support of the research professors of the local urban Observatory that is based in this Faculty, in addition to carrying out distance instruction developing virtual communities and added to the new provisions of National Policies in relation to Territorial Planning is that in the 2013 Curriculum for the training of Urban and Landscape Designers, it offers the subject of Territorial Planning to develop professional competencies in students regarding the preparation of methodological processes for the development of land use planning programs that conform to those required by the OT law, in order to build cadres of specialists both in terms of knowledge of the territory and its various variables and in the use of new technologies in geographic information systems (GIS), main mind obeys the relevance of coding, and monitoring data assemblages and methods from different areas of knowledge by means of information technology tools regarding the territory as a geographical-spatial structure, a framework that implies applying the current norms to evaluate and do territorial management. This work shows some of the activities carried out in the teaching-learning process through ICT and the results obtained.