Collaborative work support platform for educational environments: AWACATE
J.L. Bernier1, J.C. Calvo, I. García, A. Morales, J. Derrac, I. Rojas Web team of the ETS Ingenierías Informática y Telecomunicación, University of Granada, Spain
Abstract
This paper presents the AWACATE platform (Aplicación Web de Apoyo, Coordinación y Análisis del Trabajo en Equipo, awacate.ugr.es). This platform has been conceived to make teamwork easier, providing a set of collaborative tools to the members of a certain team. All the platform can be managed by the members of the group, therefore they do not require third-party help. This behavior is the main feature in a collaborative web 2.0 platform. Other educational or e-learning platforms follow a hierarchical structure where a teacher (or several teachers) manages a student group. Instead of that behavior, AWACATE enables any user to set up a group regardless this user is a teacher or a student.
Keywords: web 2.0; collaborative tools; teamwork