Los aprendizajes no formales en internetLas bibliotecas universitarias especializadas y CDI's

Résumé

Learning is a concept that can be defined in several contexts, situations, and can have several aims. Our lives are full of learning processes, since walking, eating or even playing. We can distinguish two types of learning: the formal, in education contexts and non formal, in social or entertainment contexts. The authors intend to study the theme limiting themselves to the non formal learning at the internet. We want to know how the undergraduates and the young adults in higher education behave themselves in the interaction situations when they search the information for their academic works. At the same time, it�s important to know their behaviors and how they access to the information in libraries and cdi�s in the universities. It�s also important to know how the young adults apply the vocabulary they learn in the disciplines of their academic courses and how that lexical is used for searching the information. If they have in account the meaning of the concepts through which they search the descriptors. The core of the methodological study is a structured questionnaire about behaviors, interests and applications of that information in their academic lives. The study includes a universe of students of higher education from two different colleges, the faculty of pharmacy and the faculty of tooth medicine. The aim is to know what strategies they prefer for searching the descriptors, if they search them in their semantic memories through the vocabulary they learn or through the thematic memory of the scientific domain they are studying. The sample is applied on the SPSS software and it contains questions about the situations that are here exposed. The research method is stratified and developed in five situations: 1) the characterization of the inquired students and their behaviors before the technologies of comunication and information; 2) how the young adults apply the information they search; 3) their opinions as users of libraries and cdi�s; 4) what are their perspectives in the access of information; and 5) how they imagine the libraries of the future.