Applying Google Apps for Education to Enhance an Achievement of Online Collaborative Learning for students from Computer Science Department, Kanchanaburi Rajabhat University.

Abstract

This research aimed to apply Google Apps for Education to manipulate online classroom and learning materials. Store and feedback results in order to improve learning achievement for learners. Developed online classrooms using Google Classroom together with tools such as Docs, Drives, Sheets, Forms to create assignment and workshops for learning the topics, and then applying to 23 computer science students, who registered in the architecture and computer components course. The results from the questionnaire showed that most students use the classroom and media quite often. They have positive feeling for this way of teaching by choosing 'impress' and 'relax' as the number one feeling in their mind without feeling 'panic'. Learners were 'very satisfied' in all aspects of the assessment which were 1) user interface, 2) system performance and functionality, 3) interoperability, 4) data feedback, and 5) module deployment overview. When focusing on the learning achievement, based on the comparison of the average score of the post-test (32.57%) and the pre-test (23.64%), the average score was increased. As observed results during classroom and assigned work, the results showed that learners have improved in a better way: could deployed the obtained information from both feedbacks and knowledge exchanges to improve learning, had passions more responsible for work, and basically could tell what they did or did not know from the test. As a result, it could be concluded that this type of learning materials enhanced the learning achievement of online collaborative learning.