Colaboração em fóruns de discussão online para construir conhecimento didático: um estudo na formação inicial de professores

• Autor(a) principal: Macário, Maria João
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Sá, Cristina Manuela, Moreira, António
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v6i4.3968

When the promotion of collaboration is very much an item on the agenda, cost-free social web tools, such as online discussion forums, become meeting points for individuals aiming to work together for achieving common goals. This practice has been increasingly and successfully used in initial teacher training, as well as in other Higher Education courses. In view of the above, a case study was developed with two groups of students from the same class taking a professional master’s degree from the University of Aveiro. Data collected refers to the academic years 2010/11 and 2011/12. The aims were: i) to identify their representations of collaborative work (by means of a questionnaire and an individual written assignment); ii) to understand the impact of these representations on the use of collaborative work practices in online forums (through a questionnaire and messages posted in the forum); iii) to understand how the use of collaborative work in online forums contributes to the construction of didactic knowledge when addressing the issue of spelling (through messages posted in the forum and didactic tools designed by the groups); iv) to understand the contribution of this knowledge to the creation of didactic tools when addressing spelling (through the posts in the forum and didactic tools). Results show the relationship between the appreciation of (and failure to appreciate) collaboration and its use in a collaborative environment, such as an online discussion forum, which impacts on the knowledge constructed and therefore on the didactic tools designed by the students.