Investigating Student Collaboration Through Technology at UWTSD

This research report examines the use of technology in student collaboration at UWTSD, focusing on research design, methods (primarily quantitative), and ethical considerations. The study employs a questionnaire to gather data on students' knowledge and confidence in using technology for collaboration, their preferred collaboration tools (Skype, Google Hangouts, Slack), and perceived barriers and solutions. The results, presented through frequency distribution tables and graphical representations, indicate that most students are knowledgeable and confident in using technology for collaboration, with enhancing communication and increasing productivity identified as key benefits. The report also addresses barriers such as a lack of resources and suggests providing support and positive feedback to improve collaborative work. The study concludes that technology plays a crucial role in facilitating student collaboration by expanding access to education and enabling effective online instruction.

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Contents
1. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................1
2. RESEARCH DESIGN.................................................................................................................1
2.1. Research Question................................................................................................................1
2.2. Method..................................................................................................................................2
2.3. Ethical Considerations..........................................................................................................3
3. RESULTS....................................................................................................................................3
Interpretation....................................................................................................................................4
4. DISCUSSION..............................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
Appendix A....................................................................................................................................11

1. INTRODUCTION
Technology is undertaken as an outcome of collected understandings and application of
competencies, methods and procedures utilised into the industrial production as well as scientific
research. Additionally, this impacts the way persons communicates, learn and think. This aids
students as well as ascertains how individuals interact with one another upon regular basis. In
addition to this, collaboration technology assists in expanding access to education. With this,
students have capabilities for reaching towards much opportunity with assistance of video, online
instruction that may be as effectual as traditional aspects. The aim of this report is to analyse how
students use technology to collaborate at UWTSD. For this, the chosen university is UWTSD
which is a multi-campus university with 3 key campuses into South West Wales, Within
Carmarthen, Lampeter and Swansea a fourth campus into London, England as well as centres of
learning in Wales, Cardiff and Birmingham, England. The topics which are going to be discussed
in this report are research design, method, question and ethical considerations. Apart from this,
results and discussion are also provided in this report.
2. RESEARCH DESIGN
Research design is considered as the structure of market research methods as well as tools which
are selected through investigator. Moreover, the design which is opted through researchers that
permit them in using the methods which are appropriate for the research as well as for setting up
its investigation effectively into future. In addition to this, an effective research design aids in
assuring that its methods meet their study aim which it accumulate higher quality information as
well as that they utilised the appropriate forms of analysis for answering research question, using
credible sources.
2.1. Research Question
Q1. Do you have any knowledge about the aspects technology in collaboration?
Yes
No
Q2. As per your view point, what are the various collaboration tools?
Skype
Google hangouts
Slack
Q3. Are student confident in using technology to collaborate?
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Yes
No
Q4. What are the importance of technology in collaboration?
Helping in increasing productivity
Enhancing communication
Q5. As per your view point, what are the different barriers to using technology to collaborate?
Lack of proper resources
Lack of proper knowledge about technology.
Lack of training
Q6. As per your view point, what are the several ways to remove barriers using technology to collaboration?
Providing support to the students.
Giving positive feedback on their collaborative work.
Q7. Any suggestions.
2.2. Method
There are mainly two methods such as quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative method is
undertaken as the procedures of accumulating as well as evaluating the statistical information.
Additionally, this may be utilised for identifying the patterns and averages, develop
anticipations, test causal relations and generalise outcomes towards board populations.
Moreover, it is the systematised study of phenomena through gathering quantifiable information
as well as conducting mathematical, numerical or computational techniques from existent and
possible consumer utilising sampling methods and performing online surveys, online polls and
questionnaires.
Furthermore, qualitative research may be described as the study of phenomena nature as
well as is basically effective to answers the questions of why anything is monitored, evaluating
difficult multi-components interventions as well as concentrating upon interventions
improvements. Additionally, this intend at obtaining in depth knowledge of a particular firm or
event , instead of areas of huge population sample. In addition to this, it purpose to renders an
explicit facilitating of structure, order and wide patterns identified among a group of participants.
Within this research quantitative method is used as this may be utilised for identifying the
patterns and averages, develop anticipations, test causal relations and generalise outcomes
towards board populations. Also it helps researcher in gathering quantifiable information as well
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as conducting mathematical, numerical or computational techniques from existent and possible
consumer utilising sampling methods.
2.3. Ethical Considerations
Ethical consideration is undertaken as the accumulation of belief as well as principles that is
obeyed through researcher while collecting information from the society. Additionally, ethical
principles are vital for performing the study systematically. Few of the ethical principles are
obtaining informed consent, safeguarding all participants & representative, safeguarding
confidential data of every respondent and others. In addition to this, it would aids in gaining data
without hurting sentiments of students within University.
3. RESULTS
The results can be performed with assistance of frequency distribution table:
Q1. Do you have any knowledge about the aspects technology in collaboration? FREQUENCY
Yes 20
No 10
Q2. As per your view point, what are the various collaboration tools? FREQUENCY
Skype 10
Google hangouts 10
Slack 10
Q3. Are student confident in using technology to collaborate? FREQUENCY
Yes 25
No 5
Q4. What are the importance of technology in collaboration? FREQUENCY
Helping in increasing productivity 12
Enhancing communication 18
Q5. As per your view point, what are the different barriers to using technology to
collaborate?
FREQUENCY
Lack of proper resources 20
Lack of proper knowledge about technology. 5
Lack of training 5
Q6. As per your view point, what are the several ways to remove barriers using technology
to collaboration?
FREQUENCY
Providing support to the students. 19
Giving positive feedback on their collaborative work. 11
Q7. Any suggestions.
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Interpretation
Theme 1: Any knowledge about the aspects technology in collaboration.
Q1. Do you have any knowledge about the aspects technology in collaboration? FREQUENCY
Yes 20
No 10
20
10
Yes
No
Interpretation: As per the above graphical representation, it has been interpreted that out of 30
respondents 20 are in favour of yes and rest of them which are 10 with the option no. So, it
states that most of the people are having knowledge about the aspects of technology in
collaborations as collaboration technology assists in expanding access to education. With this,
students have capabilities for reaching towards much opportunity with assistance of video, online
instruction that may be as effectual as traditional aspects.
Theme 2: The various collaboration tools.
Q2. As per your view point, what are the various collaboration tools? FREQUENCY
Skype 10
Google hangouts 10
Slack 10
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10
10
10
Skype
Google hangouts
Slack
Interpretation: There are various tools of collaboration such as skype, slack, google hangouts and
many more. As per the above graphical representation, it has been interpreted that out of 30
respondents 10 are in favour of Skype, 10 are responding towards Slack and rest of them which
are 10 with the option Google hangouts.
Theme 3: Students are confident in using technology to collaborate
Q3. Are student confident in using technology to collaborate? FREQUENCY
Yes 25
No 5
25
5
Yes
No
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Interpretation: As per the above graphical representation, it has been interpreted that out of 30
respondents, 25 are in favour of yes and rest of them which are 5 with the option no. So, it
states that most of the individuals are saying that student are confident in using technology to
collaborate.
Theme 4: The importance of technology in collaboration.
Q4. What are the importance of technology in collaboration? FREQUENCY
Helping in increasing productivity 12
Enhancing communication 18
12
18
Helping in increasing
productivity
Enhancing communication
Interpretation: There are various importance of technology in collaboration such a helping in
increasing productivity, enhancing communication and many others. As per the above graphical
representation, it has been interpreted that out of 30 respondents 20 are in favour of helping in
increasing productivity and rest of them which are 10 with the option enhancing communication.
Theme 5: The different barriers to using technology to collaborate.
Q5. As per your view point, what are the different barriers to using technology to
collaborate?
FREQUENCY
Lack of proper resources 20
Lack of proper knowledge about technology. 5
Lack of training 5
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20
5
5
Lack of proper resources
Lack of proper knowledge
about technology.
Lack of training
Interpretation: There are different barriers to using technology to collaborate such as lack of
proper resources, lack of proper knowledge about technology, lack of training and so on. As per
the above graphical representation, it has been interpreted that out of 30 respondents 20 are in
favour of lack of proper resources, 5 are responding towards lack of proper knowledge about
technology and rest of them which are 5 with the option lack of training.
Theme 6: The several ways to remove barriers using technology to collaboration.
Q6. As per your view point, what are the several ways to remove barriers using technology
to collaboration?
FREQUENCY
Providing support to the students. 19
Giving positive feedback on their collaborative work. 11
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19
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Providing support to the
students.
Giving positive feedback
on their collaborative
work.
Interpretation: There are the several ways to remove barriers using technology to collaboration
such as providing support to the students, giving positive feedback on their collaborative work
and many others. As per the above graphical representation, it has been interpreted that out of 30
respondents 19 are in favour of providing support to the students and rest of them which are 11
with the option giving positive feedback on their collaborative work.
Theme 7: Any suggestion.
Q7. Any suggestions.
Interpretation: It has been suggested to students that they have to use effective collaboration tools such as skype,
slack, google hangouts and many more. Additionally, collaboration technology assists in expanding access to
education. With this, students have capabilities for reaching towards much opportunity with assistance of video,
online instruction that may be as effectual as traditional aspects.
4. DISCUSSION
Based upon the above analysis, it has been discussed that most of the people are having
knowledge about the aspects of technology in collaborations as collaboration technology assists
in expanding access to education. With this, students have capabilities for reaching towards
much opportunity with assistance of video, online instruction that may be as effectual as
traditional aspects. There are various importance of technology in collaboration such a helping in
increasing productivity, enhancing communication and many others. Also, most of the people
are saying that enhancing communication is the effective importance. Additionally, there are the
several ways to remove barriers using technology to collaboration such as providing support to
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the students, giving positive feedback on their collaborative work and many others. In addition to
this, there are different barriers to using technology to collaborate such as lack of proper
resources, lack of proper knowledge about technology, lack of training and so on.
CONCLUSION
As per the above report, it has been concluded that Technology plays crucial role for
students in collaboration. As collaboration technology assists in expanding access to education.
With this, students have capabilities for reaching towards much opportunity with assistance of
video, online instruction that may be as effectual as traditional aspects. It is an outcome of
collected understandings and application of competencies, methods and procedures utilised into
the industrial production as well as scientific research. Apart from this, quantitative method is
used as this may be utilised for identifying the patterns and averages, develop anticipations, test
causal relations and generalise outcomes towards board populations. Also it helps researcher in
gathering quantifiable information as well as conducting mathematical, numerical or
computational techniques from existent and possible consumer utilising sampling methods.
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Appendix A
Q1. Do you have any knowledge about the aspects technology in collaboration?
Yes
No
Q2. As per your view point, what are the various collaboration tools?
Skype
Google hangouts
Slack
Q3. Are student confident in using technology to collaborate?
Yes
No
Q4. What are the importance of technology in collaboration?
Helping in increasing productivity
Enhancing communication
Q5. As per your view point, what are the different barriers to using technology to collaborate?
Lack of proper resources
Lack of proper knowledge about technology.
Lack of training
Q6. As per your view point, what are the several ways to remove barriers using technology to
collaboration?
Providing support to the students.
Giving positive feedback on their collaborative work.
Q7. Any suggestions.
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