Google Docs: Students’ Perceptions as Online Collaborative Tool in Learning Writing Skills

Collaborative Writing Practice through Online Learning: Insights from Iranian EFL Learners’ Perceptions

This study investigates the benefits of e-collaborative and collaborative writing tasks on the perception of Iranian EFL learners in a process-oriented approach. The study involved 74 intermediate Iranian EFL students at Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch. They were divided into three groups by random assignment as two experimental groups and one control group. The experimental groups were...

Collaborative learning in online courses: Exploring students’ perceptions

Virtual collaborative activities have the potential to keep students engaged, create a sense of community in online courses and allow them to experience and practice virtual teamwork skills. This study presents an attempt to explore students’ perceptions of online collaborative learning involving both process and product oriented activities. The online collaborative activities were used in the ...

Collaborative Editing for All: The Google Docs Example

Collaborative software tools allow people to share documents and knowledge via Internet, in a simple, economic and efficient way. Unfortunately collaborative software often relies heavily on visual features and dynamic technologies with user interfaces that are difficult to use via screen reader, or are sometimes even inaccessible for the blind. In this paper we illustrate and discuss results o...

Designing collaborative learning model in online learning environments

Introduction: Most online learning environments are challenging for the design of collaborative learning activities to achieve high-level learning skills. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to design and validate a model for collaborative learning in online learning environments. Methods: The research method used in this study was a mixed method, including qualitative content analysis and...

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