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Learning Technologies Lab

Collaboration

Students should be active participants in the learning progress that promote collaboration and communication while developing disciplinary knowledge and skills. The design and plan of digital strategies will foster a desire to put learning into practice.

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Collaborative activities embrace flexibility and innovative practices when learners engage in solving real-world problems and issues. They may be a short as two weeks or lasting for a whole semester. They can be between students with shared or different learning outcomes in their respective courses and programs. Assignments or learnings can be demonstrated in text, audio, image or video. Video and presentation tools such as Camtasia, Miro, PowerPoint could be adopted to support collaborative learning.

Working on real-life projects offers a variety of courses that combine theory with real-world projects to give you hands-on experience and help achieve outcomes including:

  • Engage in a project as part of a project team where learners  collaborate and communicate effectively with peers
  • Build and apply disciplinary knowledge and skills
  • Learn and practice generic skills such as communication, collaboration and problem-solving in real-world scenarios
  • Receive just-in-time and formative feedback from teachers and peers that can help improve the project performance during the learning process
  • Create a workspace for communication and collaboration. For example, create a workspace for a residency program with channels entitled #random-musings, #life-and-social, #need-help, and #congrats-thanks-brags in Microsoft Teams or other LMS forums. Over time trainees and faculty members naturally start posting queries about childcare advice queries (#need-help), online hangouts (#life-and-social), and congratulations for publishing papers (#congrats-thanks-brags). They even start asking each other for advice on fun books to read in #random-musings.
  • Create a WhatsApp group to maintain connections. For example, create a group for faculty members to connect between faculty development sessions, allowing them to continue engaging in conversations or ask random questions.

Resource Listing

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Articulate

Articulate 360 is a holistic suite of interconnected apps for all your e-learning needs—from authoring (Storyline, Studio, Rise 360, Replay, and Peek 360) to sourcing assets (Content Library 360) to collaborating (Review 360) to training (Articulate 360 Training).

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MacVideo

MacVideo.ca is a service available for hosting and delivery of media files by McMaster faculty and staff for McMaster-related purposes. MacVideo is not intended for media storage or archival purposes.

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McMaster Mail

Your McMaster employee email account will be automatically created for you once you become eligible for an account. No action is required to activate it.

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McPherson Production Studios

Located on the fifth floor of Mills Library our studios provide a professional media production space for all McMaster faculty and staff. Our studios can provide you with the tools for a DIY approach to developing media content for your online courses, flipped classrooms and other digital learning content.

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Microsoft Powerpoint

Microsoft PowerPoint turns your ideas into compelling presentations using professional-looking templates. With Live presentations in PowerPoint, audience members can see a presentation on their devices and read live subtitles in their preferred language while you speak.

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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a highly collaborative platform and allows students to host and participate in video conferences, share and edit documents together and engage with rich chat functionality.

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Miro

Miro is the online collaborative whiteboard platform that enables distributed teams to work effectively together, from brainstorming with digital sticky notes to planning and managing agile workflows.