Abstract

ZAPANA CALDERON, Hilda Yolanda.   Virtual teaching aids for Meaningful - Holistic learning. Edu Sup Rev Cient CEPIES [online]. 2017, vol.3, n.1, pp. 39-49. ISSN 2518-8283.

Abstract This research was developed with students of Library Science and Information Science belonging to the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences - Mayor San Andrés University. On the one hand, this research relates the contributions of the tools of Web 2.0 social networks - Facebook and mobile - WhatsApp (as virtual teaching aids), the theory of Meaningful Learning of David P. Aubel (potentially meaningful material, new concept in the previous cognitive structure) and the holistic learning (development of the dimensions of Being, Knowing, Doing, and Deciding). This relationship allows thinking that somehow Facebook and WhatsApp, oriented to educational purposes, permit students to develop fully due to the fact that these tools are used in daily life. On the other hand, the research proves that virtual teaching aids, based on the theory of Aubel, influence on the development of the four dimensions of holistic learning in some way, demonstrated through an educational experience at small scale. Finally, this research establishes an alternative strategy to provide students Meaningful-Holistic Learning in orderto meet the social commitment and learning needs.

Keywords : Meaningful-Holistic Learning; virtual teaching aids; Facebook; WhatsApp.