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What is Digital Visitors

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Handbook of Research on Engaging Digital Natives in Higher Education Settings
Are those who have tasks, goals and objectives and search digital tools to achieve them. Visitors need some sort of concrete benefit resulting from the use of these tools. They do not seek visibility on social networks such as Facebook, or any other tool that allows the inclusion of any form of persistent profile.
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Towards a Model of a Didactics of eLearning: An Application to Education for Sustainable Development
Filomena Amador (Universidade Aberta, Portugal), Ana Nobre (Universidade Aberta, Portugal), and Daniela Barros (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0039-1.ch019
Abstract
In this paper our aim is to analyze and discuss some of the problems that Higher Education Institutions are facing with the change in the profile of students who reach this level of education. In this context issues related to the implementation of several professional knowledge areas (conceptual, pedagogical and technological) acquire a new dimension due to the need of transpose them into online learning environments. This starting point is a deep understanding from the analysis of three theoretical perspectives: digital natives and social and cultural settings, models of didactic transposition, and education for sustainable development. The last one was selected as a model to exemplify. Thus, it is our goal in this article to discuss a first draft of a didactic transposition model adapted to eLearning that answers the needs of this specific public.
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