Effects of the interactions in the creation of virtual communities of practices

One of the characteristics that can help us define a community of learning is the type of interactions that may occur in it. After differentiate between different types of interactions (disruptive, interactive and additive) are trying to find out if they can be related to some of the indicators that characterize a community of learning. For it we used a design of prexperimental type, of the type only postest with an experimental group. One is a natural group, the group-class of the degree of social education of the University of Huelva during course 2006-0. We have put under east group an experimental situation that acts like independent variable, for which have been created several groupings of students based on the professional environment where they make the curriculars practices. 7 In this sense, we found that the styles of participacion of each individual do not exert influence on the community feeling that can have the group, reason why we deduce that it is the collective interaction of each group which really can affect to its cohesion and feeling of learning community. Also, it is left patent that the frequency of the interactions in the group is a factor that facilitates the profit of communities of learning in the network.