Virtual social networks for cooperative learning: an eduCamp experience

Abstract

Virtual Social Networks have increasingly become integrated into the lives of college students, as means of communication and recreation. Because of this, their mastery of these technologies has the potential to be used as a tool for the acquisition of other skills, as demonstrated by the EduCamp workshop designed by the University of Buenos Aires: a knowledge sharing activity in which participants learned from each other. This research project had the objective of replicating this workshop with the Faculty of Education students of the Autonomous University of Yucatán, to determine if their knowledge of the use of virtual social networks could be used for the digital learning of other web 2.0 technologies. Results were positive, with participants acquiring skills related to the use of cloud-based services and web based reference and citation tools.