Collaborative tools can enhance student learning by allowing students to work together on tasks, share knowledge and ideas, and communicate with each other and instructors flexibly. Common tools discussed include mind maps for organizing information, electronic calendars for time management, Google Docs for simultaneous editing, RefWorks for citations, wikis for group assignments, Dropbox for file sharing, and blogs for self-expression. Using these tools teaches students important job skills like communication, teamwork, time management, critical thinking, and productivity. The document recommends universities teach students how to use collaborative tools and social media as part of the curriculum.

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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