A virtual learning community experience: The use of new information and communication technologies for collaborative developing WWW resources in learning contexts

The present research note presents an educational innovation experience that aims to enforce the competences on searching, evaluating and managing relevant information, combined with other strategies for cooperative learning and problem-solving. A number of ICTs will be used in the cooperative development of a glossary of key terms for a course subject. It will be showed how this generates an emergent pattern of dynamic collaboration among students, related to the tasks of reading, selecting, and proposing definitions of key terms. As a result the students, putting in practice basic skills according to the ICT level required by the subject, are involved in a process of cooperative learning while they are committed in the construction and dissemination of a resource of public utility (the full glossary).