Learning Community, Reciprocity of Learning and Teaching. You Teach me, i Teach and Learn all

Abstract

The following work narrates the experience of the formation and development of a community of teacher learning in Universidad Nacional de Educación (UNAE de Ecuador). The initiative emerged of teachers group to face the necessity to development digital competences in order to innovate their teaching practices. It was resorted to the learning community, being considered a space characterized by familiarity and horizontality of the interrelationships between pairs for building collaborative learning. The proposal is part of the connectivism as a current version of constructivism in the context of the digital age. Through workshops methodology using digital resources according to needs, specific disciplinary and methodological contexts of university teachers in this era was explored. It was evident the role and impact of learning technologies and knowledge (TAC) through addressing resources: Academic Writing, Wikis and Online presentation considered of interest in the learning community. This experience has led to strong results confirm the effectiveness and positive impact of learning community to face the challenges of the digital age.