This infographic has been showed in the First UOC International Research Symposium celebrated in Barcelona on december 19 of 2013, as a Phd preliminary results.

1. Prelimin
ary
results
(PhD T
hes
BACKGROUND…
Digital Learners (Bullen &
Morgan)%
2012
Empirical Study about ICT
uses on digital learners
(Bullen et al.)%
%
2013
%
Empirical Study about the comparison
of digital learners in F2F and virtual
Universities (Gros et al.)%
%
%
I IMAGINE a world where technology
becomes transparent and the Network is
the main environment where people
access to content, communicate, socialize,
create, entertain, go shopping, share
knowledge and learn…
1.1. Profile of our participants:
Age%
32(
50%%
18%
GENERATIONAL FACTOR MYTH
Digital role for learning is mainly
adopted because of a set of
generational features.%
“The most profound technologies
are those that disappear. They
weave themselves into the fabric
of everyday life until they are
indistinguishable from it.”
Mark Weiser (1991)
COMPLEX VIEW
Digital role for learning is adopted
because of the interaction of many
factors related to the context,
personal features and learner
interests.%
Concerning this background, some questions were shaking into
Gender%
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So I thought that
how students valorize the usefulness of the daily life
technological uses for learning at the university, and which
of them are the most valorized…
the most reasonable
would be asking
them…
…and I decided to achieve 3 objectives:
To analyze the relationship between digital technological
uses of students in daily life and in learning university
activity.
To contribute in the construction of a conceptual
framework about experience on digital technology uses of
lifelong learners in a complex view.
To identify application patterns of digital technology uses
for learning activity at the university.
%
Questionnaire results: FREQUENCY AND SKILLS
Top 10 Highest Skilled and Frequent Digital Uses
Mo
93%
92%
To navigate and get information by general and
specialized search engines, or specific websites as
online libraries, encyclopedias, dictionaries and
media sites.
C/W
79%
To watch videos published by other people.
C/W
76%
To communicate by chat or instant message.
59%
High Frequency
Mo
72%
To take photos or videos.
C/W
72%
To access to a social networks.
C/W
70%
To buy and send goods and to access to other
services as online banking.
C/W
67%
To see pictures published by other people.
62%
To get reference information for learning, by using
contributions published by other users in their
websites and networks.
C/W
C/W
60%
To listen to music and audio recordings, or to watch
TV programs and series.
Use several social networks
for diferent purposes
(Facebook, Linkedin and
other specifics ones)
distinguishing between their personal and professional settings.
The first contact with digital technology was for personal interest.
97%
C/W
90%
To make collaborative work with other students
sharing documents with cloud applications and
online communication tools.
Mo
87%
To manage email accounts, calendar and
contacts.
86%
To have an integrate account with email,
calendar and contacts.
C/W
85%
To navigate and get specific information using
search engines and online services.
Mo
78%
To make collaborative work with other students
sharing documents by mean of cloud applications
and online communication tools.
70%
To communicate by chat or instant message.
Mo
67%
To send and receive SMS or MMS messages.
Mo
67%
To access to online services such as online
shops, libraries, online banking or databases,
with the web browser or specific APP.
C/W
51%
High Frequency
C/W
C/W
Make audio or
videoconferences between
several people
64%
To create and publish collaborative content on a
wiki.
Mo: Mobile Devices use
C/W: Web/Computer use
48%
High Frequency
Constant Internet connection by computer or mobile devices in order to
follow its activity.
%
To search and consult information using search
engines, and general and specialized websites.
C/W
56%
High Usefulness
SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
Highlight results
They use Social Networks for accessing to knowledge.
They feel their digital universe is involved in their daily life,
Use the web to make
collaborative work by cloud
applications such as Google
Drive
Communication with other users has been present since the beginning.
The Network has been crucial on their professional and personal
evolution.
contents which they consider to be interesting for tiers, by using web
social tools.
They use the Network as an open and collaborative working environment.
They are now aware they have a PLE (Personal Learning Environment)
Questionnaire results: USEFULNESS FOR LEARNING
ACTIVITY
Categories and participants suggestions (qualitative part)
Num.
Answers
Pattern
56%
High Usefulness
Publish content in real time,
and access and comment
content published by other
people (Twitter, blogs, videos
and images)
2.
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4. Web navigation and
information access
5. Communication
6. Social web and
content publication
Asking for the 3 most
useful uses for learning at
university%
In order to describe how the knowledge
construction and learning processes take place on the
Net, 3 interviews on digital daily life have been
done to skilled individuals, asking about their ICT use
in their personal and professional lives.
%
SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
@%
On the follow 6 live-wide dimensions of digital
activity:
1. Digital activity on every day life
2. The digital universe
@%
3. Digital life story
%
4. Knowledge management
@%
5. Social dimension
6. Learning in the Network
Social
Relationship
69
Information
Access
Searching general information,
searching academic information
52
Mobility
Smartphone, tablet, mobility (in
general)
Collaborative work (in general), wiki,
cloud computing
49
Collaboration
Audiovisual
content
Video content, Audio content,
multimedia (in general)
28
Information
sharing
Social bookmarking, sharing
information (in general)
[1]% This chronology is not exhaustive. You can got into detail in:
Jones, C., & Shao, B. (2011). The net generation and digital natives: implications for
higher education (Literature review)
Bennett, S. (2012). Digital Natives. In Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior. United
States: IGI Global.
[2]%It is an adaptation and an actualization of the Experience of Technology
Questionnaire of the Kennedy project. See:
Kennedy, G. (2006). Experience with Technology Questionnaire (Research Project
Website). Educating the Net Generation. Retrieved from http://
www.netgen.unimelb.edu.au/downloads/questionnaire-students.pdf
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3. Personal
organization and
productivity
66 %
Combine study
with other
activities %
Social networks, email, videocommunication, chat, Peer
communication (in general)
35
which has been built because of their informal learning and activity on
the web.
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2. Entertainment
(audiovisual and
games)
Living & Learning
activity%
Categories
81
However, their digital development has been determined by the
professional setting.
They act as an active node in the Network consuming and filtering
Y RESULTS…
Questionnaire results: USEFULNESS FOR LEARNING
ACTIVITY
Top 10 Most Useful Digital Uses
Use the smartphone to
manage email accounts,
calendars and contacts
To call and send text messages or pictures to other
people.
C/W
PRELIMINAR
1. Multimedia
production
66 %
1st Online
learning
experience%
%
USEFULNESS FOR UNIVERSITY LEARNING ACTIVITY
Divided on follow 6
areas of digital
activity:
FREQUENCY AND SKILLS
49 items (digital uses)
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89 %
1st University
Enrolment%
1.2. Questionnaire Structure:
how lifelong learners manage their “digital universe”;
which uses of technology they harness most frequently and
feel most skilled;
Previous Learning
Experience%
60 %(
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54%
40%
25%
Empirical Study about Students’
habits on ICT Use (Romero et al.)%
OBJECTIVES…
50%%
50%%
Computer/Web + Mobile Devices
dealing with the study of digital
students behavior is to go into depth
in the relation between living and
Learning technologies. In other
words, it is to compare the
capabilities and uses of digital
technology in the everyday life of
learners, to their application
preferences in learning activity in
formal contexts.
Digital Visitors & Residents
(White & Le Cornu)%
36 items (digital uses)
One of the approaches used in
New Millennial Learners
(Pedró)%
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2011
Digital Wisdom (Prensky)
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An in depth questionnaire[2] about
digital technology uses and skills, and about
the usefulness of these on learning activity,
has been applied to 184 digital lifelong
learners (first year students of the
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya).
METHODS…
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CONTROVERSY[1]
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First(UOC(Interna9onal(Research(Symposium(
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Acknowledgements(
Dr.%Gregor%Kennedy%(Melbourne%University),%Director%of%Educa:ng%
the%Net%Genera:on%Project%
Digital%Literacy%Area%of%Compu:ng,%Mul:media%and%
Telecommunica:on%Studies,%of%the%Universitat%Oberta%de%Catalunya%
The%three%anonymous%experts%on%ICT%use%that%have%accepted%to%be%
interviewed.%
All%students%that%have%par:cipated%on%the%ques:onnaire.%
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