Key skills for co-learning and co-inquiry in two open platforms: A massive portal (EDUCARED) and a personal environment (weSPOT)
| Published | March 2015 |
| Journal | Open Praxis Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 83-201 |
| Editor | Gil-Jaurena, Inés |
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.| Keywords | social networking · skills · NING platform · ELGG platform · co-learning · co-inquiry |
| ISSN | 2304-070X |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | by/3.0 |
| DOI | 10.5944/openpraxis.7.1.174 |
| URL | http://openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/174 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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