Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
Abstract
“To learn”, in the contemporaneous society, is even more an integrated and ubiquitous process (Schlemmer et alii, 2009). The learning processes are today frequently developed with in-distance methodologies, using digital technologies, social networks (Massarotto, 2011), simulations and gasification tools (Laux e Schlemmer, 2011). Methodologies and tools are developing toward hybrid and multimodal systems (Schlemmer, 2014), where different integrated technologies are combined to reach a composite audience of users/students with an hybrid/digital culture. Into these systems, ubiquitous practices and learning processes can be developed, able to reach an audience permanently connected, developing engagement in the created and cultivated virtual communities (Wenger, 2009). The virtual communities (Reinghold, 1994 e 2003; Malizia, 2008; Calvani, 2005) are changing in function of the participants’ cultural membership, a not-yet-digital hybrid culture, where “digital” is only one of the structural elements. This hybrid culture is characterized by a “digital nomadism” (Schlemmer e Backes, 2012), that becomes today the users’ ubiquity on the different fixed, mobile and wireless devices, besides the physical presence; the new practices developed in the learning processes has to deal with hybridism and multimodality. This work aims to propose a reflection on the potential and observable results of some technologies-concepts elaborated by the Research Group in Digital Education of UNISINOS university (Rio grande do Sul, Brasil), that is exploring and experimenting in the last years several success hybrid and ubiquitous learning practices, for the creation and cultivation of students’ virtual communities in the Bachelor and Master degree and in post-lauream courses. The success case can open the discussion on the possibile hybrid-digital practices in the learning processes, on possible applications and engagement modalities and levels for learning communities.
