1. USING COLLABORATIVE TOOLS
TO ENHANCE STUDENT
LEARNING EXPERIENCE

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Common Collaboration tools for
student

5. Mind Map

6. 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

7. Electronic Calendar

8. 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

9. Google Cloud Connect for Ms.
Word

10. 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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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

15. Drop box

16. 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

17. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

26. 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

27. Skills learned
 Improve  Problem solving
communication skill  Critical thinking
 Improve team work
 Self confidence
 Improve time
management skills  Increase productivity
 Increase and solidify
knowledge

28. 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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