Abstract:

The research project has the main goal of designing a scholar follow-up's permanent model of students, graduates (alumni) and continuous education for the Tourism School of the University of Colima. This research will give a better perspective to the tourism school management staff about the several reasons for desertion and permanence (improve the scholar guardianship in the tourism school) of the students at the university programs level. The research also tries to create a strong bond between tourism enterprises (who hires graduates students from this field) and the scholar management staff of the universities with tourism educational programs. A better knowledge of the hiring reasons that tourism business managers have, will lead the transformation of the tourism educational programs as their contents. In other respects, the study of the student, alumni’s behavior will provide the elements for designing a better continuous education program, which will allows the universities staffs; select the best development skills for the student’s programs. In addition to the student support, the research project would identify the future researchers-professors prospects enroll in the tourism educational programs (undergraduate and graduate programs). The research results could be used to improve the institutional systems technologies as the SICEUC (University of Colima’s Scholar Control System or “Sistema de Control Escolar de la Universidad de Colima” from his Spanish abbreviation), the Job Sites of the University of Colima, the on-line graduate’s follow-up system, among others technologies systems of the University of Colima and the Tourism School. Beside the technologies systems in existence at the university and the school levels, the follow-up study will bring different ideas of new ICT systems for the students, graduates and continuous educational programs as the insertion of Web 2.0 applications (social networks, podcasts, messenger systems, wikis, etc.), mobile communication (platforms development for the smart phones) and collaborative software platforms.

Keywords:

Model, design, student, graduate, technologies, scholar follow-up, educational programs, Web 2.0, Mobile platforms.