Online Cooperative Writing as Critical Thinking Enhancer. An Experimental Experience

In a rapidly changing environment, success of structured organizations and, consequently, of people involved, depends on the ability to continuously self-reinvent for creating new sources of wealth and activating new opportunities of value creation. In this scenario, e-learning processes play a strategic role because they are strictly linked to knowledge production and knowledge creation, two fundamental ingredients of the innovation cycle. New e-learning tools, in fact, have the ability to rationalise and improve learning processes, allowing possibilities, which support interpersonal exchange of knowledge and consequent building of new knowledge. In this framework, cooperative e-learning activities, such as collaborative writing, is conceived as a new locus of competency development strategies. It enables the exploration of new knowledge domains and cooperative definition of new ideas and projects becoming an added value for knowledge society.