La promoción de competencias en información a través de entornos virtuales de aprendizaje: el caso del Entorno Virtual de Aprendizaje de la Universidad de la República
| Main Author: | Cabrera Castiglioni, Magela |
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| Format: | Thesis PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | es |
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, 2015
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/28615/1/Tesis%20Maestr%C3%ADa%20Prodic%20Magela%20Cabrera.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/28615/ |
Daftar Isi:
- It intends to investigate the possibilities of virtual learning platforms as enabling environments for promoting information skills. For this study, is taken as reference the case of Virtual Learning Environment (EVA) at the Universidad de la República (UdelaR) and analyzed from the conceptual framework of information literacy. Virtual learning environments have widespread use in university education, their use reveals the possibility of new forms of learning, placing the student as the protagonist of the learning process. It’s because of this fact, which new questions appears about the teaching-learning process involving different aspects. Based on the principles of information science, this research focuses on the linked virtual environment issues (as a new context in which it is taught and learned) and information literacy from the perspective of information development skills mediated by the use of these platforms. The characteristics of information skills is analyzed and strategies for developing them in virtual environments is proposed. Qualitative methodology is used by performing a triangulation between bibliographic survey and systematization of information literacy in virtual environments, interviews and a case study. Based on documentary research on the core issues and transverse to the problem analysis categories (which represents information skills) that are tested through a case study with the EVA platform is proposed. This analysis is complemented by conducting interviews related to the Universidad de la República’s learning platform qualified informants. At the same time it carried out a survey and systematization of the main features of national and international information literacy experiences in virtual environments. Results highlights a number of characteristics of virtual learning environments that can promote the information skill development using the same as mediators and creating content that address the particularities of these environments. The need for university libraries are present in virtual learning environments it is observed as a must. It is expected that the results of the investigation, which specify alternatives for the promotion of a range of skills in information constitute useful inputs to generate information literacy programs through virtual environments. While obtaining new theoretical elements in the area of information literacy contribute to the training of future professionals of information that will have a national view of the problem in the context of the Universidad de la República. More specifically in the area of activity of the Facultad de Información y Comunicación is to contribute to the development of the research on information literacy, carried out under the PRODIC.