Indicativos e características da aprendizagem em uma comunidade virtual de enfermagem

The study deals with learning in nursing in a virtual environment of the Internet. PURPOSE: to verify elements of learning into content of text messages, and characterize these elements recorded in e-mail. METHODOLOGY: methodological procedure was the "cross-sectional survey", with a quantitative approach. The material of the study were all valid messages posted in the first phase of the community, 864 e-mails. The study setting was a virtual community of nursing. The analysis was made by an inspectional reading and then was found a set of empirical categories that had been indicative the learning in the community. RESULTS: it was observed that the members of the community learn primarily by questioning and requesting aid. CONCLUSION: It is possible through virtual environments to gain knowledge for life and learning to collaborate with each other. This contact with the diversity of thought favored by the digital world can be a new area of construction and circulation of knowledge.