Aprendizagem em/na rede: comunidades virtuais de aprendizagem em blogs

• Main Authors: Patrícia Brandalise Scherer Bassani, Rosi Souza Fritz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editora Universitária Champagnat - PUCPRESS 2013-01-01
• Series: Revista Diálogo Educacional
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=189129169005

Blogs consist of support for computer mediated communication and allow interaction, collaboration and online socialization. They are characterized as virtual spaces that enable the constitution of virtual communities. In the educational context, blogs are an important resource to collective writing and collaborative learning, making possible the communication and group work, and promoting authorship process in the Internet. Present studies point out that online learning happens in virtual learning communities. Through this perspective, this study focuses on research about the constitution of virtual learning communities in blogs. The study involved the analysis of the interaction through the exchange of comments and links posted in a blog. The results show the specificities of virtual learning communities and the potential of the tool blog for collaborative learning on Internet.