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USING COLLABORATIVE TOOLS
TO ENHANCE STUDENT
LEARNING EXPERIENCE
What are collaboration tools?
They are computers applications that allow
individuals to work in a group on a single task
to achieve common goal
Enable student to communicate with other
students and instructors
Share ideas, Information, knowledge, views
etc.
Why collaborative tools are important
University still uses conventional ways of knowledge delivery (Pen & Paper based, hard copy and recently presentations )
Introduces new ways of seeking and sharing knowledge
Introduces efficiency to learning
Flexible teaching/learning environment
Decreases distance between students and teachers
Enable student to think out of the box
Individuals to see from different dimensions
Bring motivation among team & Makes learning fun Enable
Common Collaboration tools for
student
Mind Map
Mind Map
Mind maps are diagrams used to brainstorm and organize ideas, and can be used by everyone for anything.
Benefits of Mind Map
Reduce re-reading tons of books
Make revision easy for student (You only capture main point)
Give a big picture of subject
Easy to concentrate and memorize
Organize information for research and assignments
Electronic Calendar
Electronic calendars
E-Calendar is a great tool for managing time
It helps student Schedule important academic event in Calendar
Share calendar with other student
Schedule meetings with instructors
Tells students when they have free time
Get reminder for the tasks
Highlight important deadline and milestone
Google Cloud Connect for Ms.
Word
Google Cloud Connect
Enable individuals to store, share, back up and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point document with coworkers
Enable Multi-person editing
Keeps a history of file edits
Edit offline
Syncing to the cloud
RefWorks
Reference management software package
Help researchers easily gather, manage, store
and share all types of information, as well as
generate citations and bibliographies
Helps researcher avoid plagiarism
Wiki
A collection of pages that allows multiple
users to collaborate on information together.
The innovative element of wikis is simplicity;
anyone can edit pages and immediately see
the changes made by other users.
Wiki tool for team work
Enable students to work on an assignment as a team
Enable student to learn about the challenges while working in a team
Share, edit each others ideas and critically assess team member work
Enable them to monitor team members progress
Share and edit each other work
Drop box
Drop box
Enable individual's to maintain a back up of their locally
stored data on the cloud
Benefits
Enable user to share and access data through the
Internet
User friendly interface | 5 GB spare free
Accessed globally | Maintain file versioning
Synchronize locally stored files with Drop Box hosting
servers
RSS Feeds
Enable the delivery of regularly changing web
contents
Allow users to keep themselves abreast about
recent development in their area of interest
Saves time, by not needing to visit every site
individually and ensure users privacy
Blog
It is an online journal or website where users
can post articles
Express their view
Share links, news, video, audios, etc.
Professor can write blog to share is expertise with
other fellows or students
Delicious
It is a social bookmarking web services used
to store, share and discover web book marks
Helps individuals collects all the web
resources used for a class, project under
single tag
Most used social book marking tool
Podcast
A multimedia digital file made available on the
Internet for downloading to a portable media
player, computer, etc.
Post cast could be audio or Video cast
Video Cast
A video file made available on the Internet for
downloading or watching online
Many universities throughout the world share
their video lectures online, a good source is
What does collaboration tools offer?
• It not only helps student take most
out of their academic life, but also
• Helps students learn most
important skills needed for every
job
Improve communication skill
Improve team work
Improve time management skills
Increase and solidify knowledge
Problem solving
Critical thinking
Self confidence
Increase productivity
Skills learned
Recommendation
University should add a new modules to its curricula by the name of Academic success, which will include the following
Using collaborative tools in education
Using social networking in higher education
Project and time management skills
Conducting research and referencing
Searching for information
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