This paper presents a virtual tool and associated guidelines to enhance the information management during the development of collaborative works, and to facilitate the information availability among the students. Moreover, this tool and the guideline improve the individual monitoring and evaluation of the contributions of the students to the work. | Journal of Technology and Science Education JOTSE, 2017 – 7(2): 172-183 – Online ISSN: 2013-6374 – Print ISSN: 2014-5349 IMPROVING TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES BY USING WIKIS IN COLLABORATIVE WORK Marta Guinau Sellés1 , Elisabet Playà Pous2 , Meritxell Aulinas Juncà2 , Laura Rosell Ortiz2 , Lluís Rivero Marginedas2 Earth and Ocean Dynamics Department, Earth Sciences Faculty, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) 1 2 Mineralogy, Petrology and Applied Geology Department, Earth Sciences Faculty, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) mguinau@, eplaya@, meritxellaulinas@, lrosell@, lrivero@ Received October 2016 Accepted January 2017 Abstract Work on transversal competences in university degrees is a teaching line entirely established since the implementation of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Nevertheless, undergraduate students present shortcomings in the development of some of these competences, especially on collaborative work, time management, oral and writing expression, and on the use of information resources. This paper presents a virtual tool and associated guidelines to enhance the information management during the development of collaborative works, and to facilitate the information availability among the students. Moreover, this tool and the guideline improve the individual monitoring and evaluation of the contributions of the students to the work. The proposal presented in this work belongs to a teaching innovation project carried out in the Earth Sciences Faculty of the Universitat de Barcelona, and implemented in the subjects General Geology (first-year in the Engineering Geology degree, 6 ECTS) and Geochemistry (third-year in the Geology degree, 9 ECTS). Keywords – Geology, Engineering Geology, Team working, Wiki, Oral communication. ---------- -172- Journal of Technology and Science Education – 1. Introduction A major educational aim in university
