Students’ Perceived Comfort in Using Google Docs for Online Synchronous Collaborative Writing

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...

Synchronous, Distributed Collaborative Writing for Policy Agenda Setting Using Collaboratus

Collaborative writing (CW) in policy agenda setting and grant development is an important aspect of community development. However, solutions need to be found to better deal with distributed CW. This paper establishes a basis for improving distributed, CW for policy agenda setting, and similar efforts, by using a Internet-based collaborative tool. This work utilizes key research to better under...

Semester Project - Menthor - Google Docs

Integration of Google Docs as a Collaborative Activity within the LMS Using IMS BasicLTI

Google Docs is a well-known suite of online collaborative tools for document processing, spreadsheets, online presentations, drawing and even quizzes. Google Docs has the potential to become a powerful tool within and LMS course, primarily due to its collaborative qualities. This paper presents an integration that using the IMS BLTI standard turns Google Docs into an engine that powers collabor...

An Interactionist Dynamic Assessment of Essay Writing via Google Docs A Case of Three Iranian EFL University Students

The present case study sought to investigate the application of dynamic assessment to an EFL writing context. It primarily aimed to understand the effectiveness of an interactionist dynamic assessment procedure through a web-based application in enhancing argumentative essay writing skill at the university level. The three participants of the study received mediational interactions in five cons...