Conferências online - um espaço de aprendizagem significativa

In a context of continuous training and professional development, the use of collaborative knowledgeto buildprocesses and strategies can contribute to increase individual and group learning experiences. This finding is also applicableina formative context that uses Web 2.0 tools. This article intends to show how online conference participants organize and demonstrate their learning in a specific space of the virtual environment such as chats. By focusing on the interpretative research based on a case study we analyzed the contents of the chat sessions open at the same time of the presentations of each lecturer or workshop facilitator of the Online Conference on Educational Informatics (COIED). As results,we identified the units ofmeaningthat facilitatedthe creation of a framework of analysis of a chat of an online conference. The indicators related to implicit or explicit learning (cognitive dimension) and to teachers' behaviors in their effective practices (dimension of professionalism) point to the possibility of considering chat as a relevant strategy in the construction of meaningful and collaborative learning.