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- Learning in Knowledge Society: the different roles of VLEs & PLEsPublication . Loureiro, Ana; Messias, Inês; Potes Barbas, MariaIn the connected world we live in today, people no longer look for information only in formal places. The internet has become a place of choice to gather information. Social networks are no longer only used for pleasure and maintaining contact with friends, and have grown to became platforms where knowledge is created, shared and where connectivity and collaboration are natural. Many people look at the web as a place for learning and use it to create a network which allows them to gather, select, share opinions, reshape ideas and create knowledge to then share on social networks. Students’ learning profile is becoming more proactive in the search for information and constructing valid knowledge.
- e-skills, soft skills & social skills - students' competences on a digital agePublication . Messias, Inês; Loureiro, Ana; Potes Barbas, MariaThe demands on today‟s digital society raise the necessity of students to acquire different skills and competences - a new kind of literacy. Besides digital skills, there is also the need of being in possess of social and soft skills. Learning, due to the advent of social Web and collaborative virtual environments, has a lot to do with socialization. This article aims to know if and how these competences and access to digital and virtual tools can change students learning processes, allowing them to be more participative in constructing their knowledge.