Recovery activity for Module 4 - Comments on colleagues work

Internet and collaborative work


Several important aspects pointed out the presentation of my colleagues, collaborative learning (defined as an interactive learning based on dialogue, confrontation of ideas and colleagues feedback), the role of the tutor in the new learning contexts and how can Internet improve and enrich the learning experience.


One of the most important aspect presented is interactivity. Internet provides the opportunity to create diferente interactions among the participants in the learning process, as well as between the tutor (who’s one of the most important roles is to generate and to encourage the interactivity
among participants). The major gain is the feedback and the exchange of oppinions among participants, as well as real time access to all these as well as to other importante resources.

Communities of Practice (CoP) represente groups/communities working together in order to reach a common learning goal. These are great spaces of work for research groups, providing access to more information on the topics of interes as well as the possibility to exchabge best practices in research.

One of the risks of using joining a CoP is related to quality: this could be influenced by the
presence in the community of a person less experienced. It is indeed the tutor the one who has to ensure a quality control (more or less to filter the information or to establish a baseline with quality criteria for the information).

Nowadays Internet provides the space and the tools necessary in order to ensure that a learning
process will occur. Thus, we are given the possibility to use Internet in trainigs and other teaching related activities. Not only it provides a platform for different teaching materials (that could be accessed at any time, provided one has a laptop or a desktop and an Internet connection), but also for online classes that are taken by more and more persons looking to gain as much as possible in the little time they have at their disposal (especially working people, or people interested in learning new things and developing new competences in the hours available after a working day). It also provides the correct tools to direct and real time evaluation that is usually highly appreciated by participants in this process