标题：Guess who’s coming? Use of information and communication technology (ICT) and learning styles of the newly enrolled generation of students at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER)
摘要：During the summer of 2011, the newly enrolled FER students were offered a network portal www.fer.unizg.hr/dobrodosli as a sort of e-bypass from high school to academic education. An anonymous online survey was conducted with the aim to explore the students’ satisfaction level with the offered portal, and to research the characteristics of the newly enrolled generation of students, namely to what extent their profiles correspond to the terms which are used to describe them in literature (Homo Zappiens, digital natives, net generation, y-generation, millennials, nano, etc.). The majority of students participating in the survey started using computers in the early grades of primary school. In the higher primary school grades, they began using the chat programmes and browsing Internet. The majority of students said that they felt better with the Internet at hand, and considered it a very important asset in establishing and maintaining social contacts. Students who began using computers at an early age demonstrated trends of a rather holistic approach to learning, with a larger attention span, nonlinear learning, multitasking and experiencing learning as a play, which corresponds to Prensky’s model of differences between Homo Sapiens and Homo Zappiens. The idea of the portal www.fer.unizg.hr/dobrodosli has been created and launched by the FER Central Library, as one of the services in the process of redesigning library activities.
关键词：university library; operational guidelines; new generation of users; learning; Homo Zappiens; digital natives; net generation; portal www.fer.unizg.hr/ dobrodosli
