Collaboration in the Cloud Computing Among Students of Professional Departments of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad

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Collaboration in the Cloud Computing Among Students of Professional Departments of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad Fawaz Abdullah Alhamdi, Dr. Vaishali Khaparde Abstract The Study examines how students of professional departments of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, collaborate in the cloud computing. A well structured questionnaire was distributed among the 160 students under study, only 121 retrieved. Findings of this study show that all the respondents were aware of using the Internet, respondents prefer to access internet from mobile phone, and student’s collaboration in the cloud computing is being heavily used web mail, face book, and yahoo. And also the study highlights that the majority of respondents are chatting (Mean=3.75) and Sending and receiving email. (Mean=3.55). Also study showed that the majority of respondents have a very high ability to use and access Google applications “Google groups” (Mean=4.78), “Google sites” (Mean=3.88), “Yahoo groups” (3.50), “Google talk” (Mean=3.09), “Google Docs” (Mean=3.07), “Google calendar” (Mean=3.88), also respondents have perfect ability to use “Wikipedia” (Mean=3.72). The study revealed that there is no significant difference in the extent of satisfaction of professional students to collaborate in the cloud computing based on gender (t = 0.518; df = 119; P> 0.05); also there is no significant difference in impact of cloud computing in education of professional students to collaborate in the cloud computing based on gender (t = 0.379; df = 119;; P> 0.05). There is significant difference in the extent of satisfaction of professional students to collaborate in the cloud computing based on post graduation (t = -2.112; df = -119; p < 0.05); and also there is significant difference in impact of cloud computing in education of professional students based on post graduation (t= -2.185; df = -119; p< 0.05). There is significant difference in evaluation performance of collaboration in the cloud based on professional departments (F= 3.565; df=4&116; p<0.05); these significant according to (library since & tourism), (library science & journalism). Eventually, the study discusses the problems that are preventing while collaborate and use of the internet. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jlis.v2n2a1