How Students Collaboratively Write using Google Docs

Wang, Dakuo; Olson, Judith S.; Zhang, Jingwen; Nguyen, Trung; Olson, Gary M.

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Title

How Students Collaboratively Write using Google Docs

Author(s)

• Wang, Dakuo
• Olson, Judith S.
• Zhang, Jingwen
• Nguyen, Trung
• Olson, Gary M.

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• information visualization
• human-computer interaction

Abstract

Writing collaboratively is increasing in many professions, including among college students. Students are writing many assignments collaboratively, learning as they go. Writing collaboratively, however, takes coordination and awareness of who has done what. We offer a new tool, DocuViz, which displays the entire revision history of Google Docs, showing more than the one-step-at-a-time kind of snapshot currently available in Docs and Word. Using DocuViz, we analyzed 99 students’ reports from a Project Management class and found it to reveal interesting patterns of collaborative writing. We believe this tool would be useful not just for researchers, but also for the authors themselves and instructors.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

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