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7 Great Web Tools To Help Students Study Collaboratively

7 Great Web Tools To Help Students Study Collaboratively
May 23, 2014 Students love to work in groups and every teacher knows this fact by heart. Group work has several pedagogical pluses that includes developing collaborative and co-operative skills, enhancing social skills and interactions, promoting critical thinking skills, and nurturing a learning environment of trust and support. Now with the web 2.0 technologies, the potential of group work is even bigger. Students can create study groups online and learn collaboratively with others regardless of their geographical locations. Below are some of the best web tools students can use to create online study groups. 1- Examtime Examtime is a platform that allows you to create, share and discover resources, build mind maps, flashcards, quizzes and notes for free. .Examtime also has a feature called "groups" which enables students to create study groups. 2- Thinkbinder Think binder is another platform where students can create and host their study groups. 3- Google+ Circles and Hangouts 6- Wikis

MOOCtalk | Let's teach the world European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning Dorothy C. Kropf [Dorothy.Kropf@waldenu.edu], Walden University, 100 Washington Avenue South, #900, Minneapolis, MN 55401, United States of America [ Transformed into a large collaborative learning environment, the Internet is comprised of information reservoirs namely, (a) online classrooms, (b) social networks, and (c) virtual reality or simulated communities, to expeditiously create, reproduce, share, and deliver information into the hands of educators and students. Keywords: connectivism, e-learning, information repositories, learning theory Siemens (2008) suggested that modern day learning occurs through network connections as individuals share their interests, knowledge, perspectives, expertise, and opinions in online or virtual learning environments (Dunaway, 2011). Today’s students are “do-it-yourself” learners (Nussbaum-Beach & Hall, 2012, p.11). The most radical educational transformation befalls on higher education (Hogg & Lomicky, 2012). Figure 1. NING site

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