Last modified: 2021-11-24
Abstract
The presence of technology in this pandemic is very essential for students to have easy and effective learning. Technology can be the solution in organizing group work, one of the online applications used for online learning is Google Docs. Google Docs provides a platform that can assist online collaborative writing. The research aimed to investigate students’ perceptions of using Google Docs for their online collaborative writing as well as Google Docs’ benefits and drawbacks for online collaborative writing. The researcher applied a qualitative case study and used two data gathering methods, namely questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire consisted of 16 close-ended questions that were used to gather the data from 62 participants and to select the interviewees. The semi-structured interviews were conducted online and aimed to probe more deeply into the participants' perceptions in using Google Docs for online collaborative writing during the pandemic. The finding showed that the majority of students had positive perceptions of using Google Docs for online collaborative writing. With the support of its features, Google Docs made online collaborative writing simpler and more efficient in terms of student performance during group work, collaboration, and accessibility. Moreover, students' active participation was an important factor in online collaborative writing.