Webquest y wikis: búsqueda de información en red y desarrollo de competencias en colaboración

Abstract

In university education is committed to strategies and resources, -that exploit the potential of digital tools-, such as Webquests as supported collaborative research methodologies in the search for information and the use of content on the Internet for conducting projects. Which can be articulated from 2.0 tools like wikis, for its versatility and capacity to generate knowledge collaboratively by creating online content.

In the virtual subject of Education in the rural area was designed a collaborative learning activity based on the philosophy of webquests and supported by the use of wikis, - setting up what was called Gameproject - that facilitates access and management information to create a project of socio-educational intervention.

After its implementation in several years, 161 students were asked about competences they considered to have developed and consolidated with the proposed collaborative work. The students stressed the skills to research, collection and processing of information, and other more specific competences relating to the future performance of their work. Noted that students without prior experience in virtual training, considered to have consolidated over the powers associated with the use of tools.