Research articles
Key skills for co-learning and co-inquiry in two open platforms: a massive portal (EDUCARED) and a personal environment (weSPOT)
Authors:
- Alexandra OkadaEmail Alexandra Okada
- Antonio Roberto Coelho Serra
- Silvar Ferreira Ribeiro
- Sônia Maria da Conceição Pinto
Abstract
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.
- Year: 2015
- Volume: 7 Issue: 1
- Page/Article: 83-102
- DOI: 10.5944/openpraxis.7.1.174
- Published on 1 Jan 2015
- Peer Reviewed