EFFECTIVENESS OF ZOOM AS A COLLABORATIVE TOOL FOR LEARNING

Zoom is a powerful and versatile tool for collaborative learning. It provides an easy way for teachers and students to interact with one another in real-time, regardless of their physical location. Additionally, the range of features offered by Zoom allows for interactive and engaging sessions with multiple tools like whiteboards, polls, and breakout rooms. Social and emotional learning (SEL) is also an important part of the teaching and learning experience, as it helps students foster relationships, manage emotions, and better understand their own strengths and limitations. With Zoom, teachers can create an environment that encourages collaboration, respect, and care towards one another, while providing students with opportunities to express their feelings and practice problem solving. Overall, Zoom is an ideal platform for facilitating successful and productive collaborative. The main objective of study to analyse effectiveness of zoom as a collaborative tool for social and emotional learning. In this research researcher selected two B.Ed. College students – teachers form affiliated to University of Mumbai. For the study 200 student- teachers were selected as samples. A quasi- experimental design was used for the study. Mean and the standard deviation was used. ‘t’ test was used in testing null hypotheses.