Abstract

RODRIGUEZ ZAMORA, René  and  ESPINOZA NUNEZ, Leonor Antonia. Collaborative work and learning strategies in virtual environments in university youth. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.14, pp.86-109. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v7i14.274.

This paper is derived from a comprehensive project about the virtual spaces creation based on the study of the virtual education psychology; in this sense, we analyzed the relationship between collaborative work and the learning strategies used by the young people for their use in virtual environments. It was tried to identify the orientations or preferences for the accomplishment of collaborative work in the generation of the autonomous learning, as well as the strategies used in the students performance to the contact with the virtual environments like pedagogical tools, taking as study subjects of the level middle upper and upper between 15 and 23 years old from the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. It was found that baccalaureate students, despite being more easily informed, lack initiative to search for autonomous strategies, showing difficulty in discriminating and selecting the most appropriate information as part of process analysis. Higher-level youths showed willingness to work in teams and greater ability to search information, but found difficulties to manage virtual platforms because they perceive that there is no teacher participation. Both populations recognized that they had certain skills for autonomous learning and the performance of collaborative work, but their perception was that the development of these competencies had not been sufficiently strengthened. The results obtained may serve as guidelines for future research aimed at the generation of training proposals within the framework of virtual environments.

Keywords : Collaborative work; learning strategies; virtual environments; information and communication technologies.

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