WebQuests: a tool or a trandisciplinary methodology?

Abstract

The role played by WebQuests and their impact on teachers’ training is the aim of this piece of writing. WebQuests are a permanent item we have been dealing with, since 1999, in teachers’ training courses and workshops. Here we describe the history and the experience we have on this subject. As a matter of fact, Setúbal Higher School of Education and its Competence Centre have been developing pre-service and in-service teachers’ training workshops and courses where WebQuests have continuously been present as the main content. We try to present the breaking and turning point of our experience towards the integration of that methodology in our training sessions, the kind of audience we’ve been working with, and some reflection on the role of WebQuests in teaching practice.