La web 2.0 y el aprendizaje colaborativo en la educación portuguesa

The purpose of this article is to review current research studies published in the past four years in the Open Access Scientific Repository of Portugal (RCAAP). This allows searches in 45 Portuguese repositories, most of them in various Portuguese universities and is used in this study to look for applications of collaborative learning at different levels of the Portuguese education system, using web 2.0 tools. First, collaborative learning and Web 2.0 are defined and their main features examined. Secondly, we performed a comprehensive review of 21 publications on the subject, touching various aspects including the author and year, objective, educational level applying methodology used, means of measurement and sample involved. To this are added results classified into two categories, the emotional component and the effects on learning. Finally, it is shown that the application of this innovative model in the educational syllabus of any curriculum area using web 2.0 tools has positive effects on various psychological. During this research study, we received competitive funds from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation (MICINN) (EDU2010-19250 / EDUC) for 2010-2013, awarded to the Director/Main Researcher (J. N. García). J. García-Martín received funds from the FPI MICINN for the same project. This article was realized in stay of Judit in summer 2012 in the University of Coimbra with the collaboration Dr. María Teresa Ribeiro Pessoa.