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oai:doaj.org/article:cc0997f3a2764d8faed1c2d12b91acb8

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10.1344/BiD2016.37.14

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Features of online collaborative writing of multimodal texts in a virtual course

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Objetivo: analizar la incidencia de una estrategia de escritura colaborativa en línea de un texto multimodal en el aprendizaje de la escritura, el aprendizaje colaborativo y el aprendizaje de contenidos disciplinares de estudiantes universitarios en un curso virtual. -- Metodología: se realizó un estudio de caso en una asignatura de lengua de un programa universitario en modalidad virtual. Participaron 2 tutoras y 214 alumnos organizados en 43 grupos colaborativos, de los que se tomaron como muestra 12 grupos (60 estudiantes). Las técnicas de recolección de la información utilizadas fueron el registro audiovisual, el análisis documental de los foros y las wikis y los textos producidos por los estudiantes, así como las entrevistas a las docentes. -- Resultados: se encontró que la estrategia de escritura colaborativa en línea incidió positivamente en los procesos de aprendizaje de los participantes en lo relacionado con el trabajo colaborativo, la lengua, la temática planteada para el producto y las herramientas de las TIC utilizadas en su ejecución. Asimismo, se encontraron dificultades en las características multimodales de los productos elaborados. Se resalta el potencial encontrado en la escritura colaborativa en línea, condicionado a los procesos de diseño y a la mediación de las actividades. Objective: This paper examines the impact of online collaborative writing of multimodal texts, completed during a virtual course for university students, on the participants’ writing skills, their experience of collaborative learning and their disciplinary literacy. -- Methodology: The paper reports on a case study of university students who participated in an online language learning course. The course was led by two tutors and completed by 214 students organized in 43 collaborative groups, of which 12 (60 students) were sampled. The authors collected their data from audiovisual recordings, documental analyses of the forums, wikis and student-generated texts, and interviews with the tutors. -- Results: The study found that the collaborative writing activities had a positive effect on the students’ learning process, specifically on their ability to engage in collaborative work, their language learning (the subject of the course), the quality of attention given to the topics that emerged in the writing activities and the students’ use of ITC tools. On the other hand, the study also observed that there were certain shortcomings in the texts produced during the course and that these were directly related to the multimodal character of the texts. The authors conclude that online collaborative writing can positively contribute to student learning when and where this is favoured by the design of the writing tasks and the choice of activities.

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