DEVELOPING COLLABORATIVE COMPETENCES IN DIDACTIC SITUATIONS VIA E-PORTFOLIOS
DEVELOPING COLLABORATIVE COMPETENCES IN DIDACTIC SITUATIONS VIA E-PORTFOLIOS

Summary/Abstract: The implementation of various tools and Web technologies in the teaching / learning process takes place not only for technical reasons, simplifying, in this regard, the access to many informational resources. The main purpose is to provide opportunities for communication and collaboration for both students and teachers. The performance of building knowledge and subsequently of developing competences cannot take place in a vacuum, but only in a certain situation. Every person form their new knowledge in certain situations, making sense of some internal resources (cognitive – their prior knowledge and conative – their attitudes) as well as some external resources. Among external resources there may be mentioned: human resources such as teachers, colleagues, parents; material resources and Web resources. In this context, the new Web tools such as electronic portfolios, blogs, social networks, wiki-s serve as a favourable environment for collaboration which means 24/24 communication and interaction student-student, student-teacher, teacher-teacher issuing as a result with the development of own knowledge, skills, competencies. At Alecu Russo Balti State University, at Faculty of Exact Sciences, within the pedagogical experiment held during “Generic Applications” course, the platform Mahara was used (weten.usb.md / Mahara) to create electronic portfolios as an ideal tool for spreading, viewing and checking information required for classes activities. At the end of the semester, a questionnaire for students and teachers involved in the experiment was drafted, regarding the opinions of carrying out such technology. As a result, both strengths and weaknesses while using electronic portfolios in education were highlighted. In the article, there were also outlined perspectives and new proposals to improve the quality of using such technology.

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