Key skills for co-learning and co-inquiry in two open platforms: a massive portal (EDUCARED) and a personal environment (weSPOT)

• Autores: Alexandra Lilavati Pereira Okada, Antonio Roberto Coelho Serra, Silvar Ribeiro, Sonia Pinto
• Localización: Open Praxis, ISSN-e 2304-070X, Vol. 7, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 83-102
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper presents a qualitative investigation on key skills for co-learning and co-inquiry in the digital age. The method applied was cyber-ethnography with asynchronous observation (forum and wiki) and synchronous discussions (webconference) for analysing skills developed by a co-learning community. This study focuses on participants from different countries who interacted during nine months in two open platforms: the massive educational portal EDUCARED of the �7th International Conference on Education 2012-2013" and weSPOT, an European �Working Environment with Social Personal and Open Technologies for inquiry based learning�. As a result of this study, it was observed that the EDUCARED portal led to the development of more explicit digital literacies, possibly because it was a simpler and familiar interface (forum). And in the weSPOT environment, experienced participants with digital technologies had more opportunities to develop other skills related to Critical-Creative Thinking and Scientific Reasoning.