The Collaborative Affordance Through CGScholar

Abstract

The students of the “Introduction to Educational Sciences” course, within the context of a MA Postgraduate program, mostly teachers or future teachers, were asked to use the common ground scholar (CGScholar) platform. The main goal of this chapter is to present how the course was organized and implemented within the CGScholar platform. It also presents the analysis of the students' self-reflection at the end of the course, as part of a feedback process. The results of this study show that students developed linguistically during this course; and advanced their social skills and significant mental functions. Moreover, when working within a digital learning community, they eliminated their egocentric way of thinking, and realized the value of cooperation in acquiring knowledge. They, as teachers, are eager to implement the knowledge acquired and the learning method implemented in their classrooms.