The use of social media tools in ViCaDiS Virtual Campus

This paper describes the results of piloting an online - mobile phone environment -ViCaDiS - Virtual Campus for Digital Students, as a co-operation between 6 universities from European Union to develop a common online learning environment enhanced with web 2.0 tools for supporting the online international co-operation at academic level. ViCaDiS facilitates a shift from Institutional Learning Environments towards Personal Learning Environments. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies integrated as an everyday feature of their lives. It presents the evaluation of this new learning environment for digital students.