Abstract

MORALES-BARRERA, Magda Concepción. Towards an understanding learning in digital socio-cultural environments and the implications for education. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2018, vol.16, n.1, pp.375-387. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/1692715x.16123.

This paper describes a study that has the objective of analyzing the learning characteristics, based on digital abilities, that young people in higher education develop in non-school digital socio-cultural environments. The relevance of this research is that the analytical understanding of these forms of learning contributes to identifying the challenges for higher education and possible ways to solve them. The methodological approach used is qualitative and the information collection techniques included: questionnaires, discussion groups and focus groups. The results are mediated by the analytical category of young people. The author concludes that the forms of being young in digital socio-cultural environments entail unprecedented ways of learning and understanding the world

Keywords : Youth; Information Society; ICT; Learning; Higher Education (Social Sciences UnescoThesaurus).

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