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This paper presents the design and development of a Virtual Learning Object. The aim is to achieve a computational teaching tool that facilitates the understanding of the course topics and allows the assistance of students during their independent study hours of the Basic Electronics course offered by the Computer Science program at the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. To develop this tool, the MEC (Computarized Educational Material) methodology proposed by Galvis Panqueva was used; this method includes the phases of analysis, design, development, testing and deployment. Pedagogical components were analyzed by identifying learning styles; for this, a survey of the Felder and Silverman type was conducted to a group of students. The Virtual Learning Object permits three types of user, for whom specific roles were defined and controlled by login features that enable or disable the options for each role, contributing to fulfill the tasks of the course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to present a methodological reference for the creation of Virtual Learning Objects, which is based on the analysis of the current pedagogical model of the University of Boyacá, Colombia, the definition of a learning object, the conceptualization of the methodology, its objectives and structure, and the different phases that it comprises. UBoa, hence, becomes a mediator supporting a quality control phase, which allows the organization of processes and validates the information to publish VLOs that meet the educational requirements and techniques of a virtual pedagogical model. This reference is the result of a collaborative and multidisciplinary work to support the construction of both b-learning and e-learning modules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]