This document outlines an IP course aimed at providing students with e-skills for collaboration and knowledge sharing in a digital society. The goals are to help students identify their ICT competencies, explore various collaboration tools, select tools to create a personal learning environment, learn to use the tools, and work collaboratively using web 2.0 tools. The methodology includes lectures, workshops, skills assessments, mentoring, and sessions for students to develop and share their work. Outcomes include academic papers, a course blog, a conference, and a defined set of collaborative tools. The target students are in higher education fields like social education, teaching, and health.

1. e-skills
{ COMPETENCES FOR COLLABORATION AND
KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN DIGITAL SOCIETY
September 2011
Higher School of Education, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém
Complexo Andaluz, 2001-902 Santarém - Portugal

2. [justification of IP course]
why do we need to prepare students with e-skills:
o digital networked society
o e-learning
o life long learning, social media, establishing personal learning networks,
communication of ideas (as individuals and as part of an organisation)
o work collaboratively at a distance
o online tools

3. [goals of IP course]
Provide students with ICT skills for a digital society, namely:
o Identification of students competences in ICT;
o Present students with different available collaboration tools by exploring
the web 2.0;
o Selection of specific tools to create students' personal
learning environment (PLE);
o Acquire necessary knowledge to master the selected tools;
o Work collaboratively with the web 2.0 tools;
o Become proficient in digital collaboration

4. [methodology]
o Lectures and workshops to present the potentialities of web 2.0 tools for
knowledge sharing and collaborative work;
o Identification of students' competences in ICT with a fishbowl strategy;
o Speed mentoring to help students understand what competences and tools
they need to share and work collaboratively in digital society;
o Hands on workshops to explore, get to know and understand the available 2.0
web collaboration tools;
o Hands on workshops for students develop and create their PLE;
o Group therapy (reflective approach) sessions to sum up each days' work;
o Final session to wrap up the knowledge acquired throughout the IP course;

5. [outcomes]
o Scientific papers
o blog (to help students and tutors to create, develop and maintain a
community of practice around the IP course theme)
o conference (with plenary sessions and poster sessions - students have
the opportunity to present their work)
o Define a set of web 2.0 collaborative tools to serve as a model to other
students interested in collaborative work in digital society

6. [target & team]
target
o higher education students
o social education, teacher training, health
team
o ICT teachers
o Educational Sciences teachers
o Social Education teachers
o Health teachers
proponents
o Ana Loureiro [ana.loureiro@ese.ipsantarem.pt]
o Inês Messias [ines.messias@ese.ipsantarem.pt]
o Maria Barbas [maria.barbas@ese.ipsantarem.pt]