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.
Highlights
The digital age is marked by the accelerated development of knowledge technologies, intelligent networks, massive and personalised platforms where individuals and communities instantaneously access, create and share information
This paper describes a qualitative study which focuses on the relevant skills that were identified by participants for collaborative open learning and cooperative research in the weSPOT inquiry personalised environment and the EDUCARED massive educational portal
Such virtual space is constituted by people who are interconnected by dynamic relationships capable to build a symbolic cognitive system (Lewgoy, 2009) that emerges in online open platforms, such as a massive educational portal and a personalised inquiry environment
Summary
The digital age is marked by the accelerated development of knowledge technologies, intelligent networks, massive and personalised platforms where individuals and communities instantaneously access, create and share information. In this context, it becomes relevant to investigate “Open Education in the 21st century”. The rapid advances of the Web and innovative pedagogies, participants requires participants to be able to collaborate together in order to co-learn and develop skills for co-creating knowledge anywhere and anytime. This paper describes a qualitative study which focuses on the relevant skills that were identified by participants (learners and educators) for collaborative open learning (co-learning) and cooperative research (co-inquiry) in the weSPOT inquiry personalised environment and the EDUCARED massive educational portal
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