Collaborative learning can be seen as a joint effort between students or between students and teachers together. Through collaboration, students develop knowledge through the exchange of ideas, joining forces with the search for meaning and solutions to problems. With the changing trends toward collaborative learning model of education that results in more versatile so, the technological tools used to make things easier to do. In recent years there has been an exponential growth of what was called “social software”, referring to technologies that facilitate group communication. Internet discussion forums, social networking sites like MySpace, people can represent and create social relationships and can be seen as social software. Weblogs that facilitate discussion on many blogs through comments on posts, social bookmarking, wikis and other forms of social software that have recently experienced growing popularity. A medium as “Wikispaces” have received interest in education. In education, wikis a reputation as one of the most effective tools for collaborative learning. Wikis are websites online that allows content to be created and edited by users.

The increasing dominance of the wiki space as a means to facilitate cooperative learning may owe its success to changes in the attitude of the developed societies, where there is a deviation from the traditional industries of the knowledge society based on more. It seems that knowing how to learn and participate in the creation of new knowledge are essential life skills. With a focus on learning life skills, ie learning to learn and create knowledge in a knowledge economy, it seems that the use of wikis in education is seen as the ability to teach life skills.

Wikis are one way technology can help groups come together and share new knowledge and therefore a convenient way to learn important skills to participate in a knowledge economy. Practices to participate in wikis and social software in general, a support structure of a community of practice model of learning when people come together and develop a repertoire of shared practices, creating new experiences with the group and existing teaching practices group.