Collaborative Work in Higher Education: Tools and Strategies to Implement the E-Assessment

Abstract

This chapter is an educational approach to online collaborative work in higher education, considering both the digital tools and the strategies for the e-assessment. We can observe the evolution of digital learning: from e-learning to m-learning and u-learning, through blended-learning and new other models like adaptive learning. In every model, we can try to promote collaborative work and we need to assess these group strategies. Thus, our main objectives are answering what type of digital tools we can use to promote virtual collaboration, which are the main strategies to implement, and finally considering different models of e-assessment in relation to the previous issues. Educational research shows the possibilities of digital tools like social networks, e-portfolios, collaborative environments, or traditional tools inside LMS from an assessment approach that considers the formative processes as the key to online collaboration.