Course Description

The Online Collaboration module covers the main concepts and skills needed to collaborate online using web-based tools and services.

With distributed teams, remote working, and outsourcing now common practice in organisations, workers are often interacting with people who are elsewhere in the world. Technology is helping to remove geographical and organisational boundaries at work, but this also means that new skills are needed to collaborate effectively with colleagues.

This module is suitable for a wide range of candidates in all types of job role. Online collaboration does not only apply when colleagues work long distances from each other. Collaboration tools and services bring many productivity gains that will also benefit workers in the same location.

Learning Outcome

Successful candidates will be able to plan and manage collaboration using services such as cloud computing and mobile technology. After passing this module, candidates will feel confident collaborating and interacting using online tools, as well as scheduling and hosting online meetings. They will be able to:

understand the key concepts of online and mobile collaboration recognise good practice in cloud computing and how this facilitates collaboration identify tools supporting online collaboration, such as productivity applications, social media, calendars, meetings, and learning environments know how to register, set up, and delete user accounts for collaborative tools understand how collaboration works on mobile devices such as tablet and smartphones