Miguel Romero Gutiérrez, María Martínez Chico, María Rut Jiménez Liso
In distance education, online forums provide an ideal place to reflect on in order to induce shared learning, assessment or effectiveness analysis of a subject. We brought it to light in a subject of an environmental education joint master degree, developed simultaneously in seven Andalusian universities, and that it is assessed to improve in the last few years.Class sessions analysis of each subject in the “common module” let us identify the one in which students’ activities are the main focus.The selected subject has as teaching objective that students learn the inquiry teaching approach’s characteristics through practices where they can live, in first person, teachingexperiences based in this approach. To know the effectiveness of the subject to reach this objective we have analysed student’s contributions in an online forum “class diary”, where they could reflect and discuss about what they have lived and learnt in the classes. This information has been analysed following a qualitative-interpretative methodology to identify what and when students’ contributions are referred to inquiry teaching approach’s characteristics. Results show that students know and express allcharacteristics in a different degree, depending on what is the content worked, as well as the contributions complementarity, promoting the collective construction of the knowledge
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