ABSTRACT
Nowadays the growth of technology influences the changes in group collaboration's process either for the
professional or for the students. The requirement of interaction in group collaboration while doing task forces the
students to schedule their meeting in order to finish the task given. So the technology starts to influence the
process of group collaboration as a communication and interaction media between students in doing their tasks.
The purpose of this research is to analyze factors from technology characteristics that drive the students to use
collaborative tools, and the implication of using collaborative tools in group collaboration to the group
performance. Our research model was validated using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique with
LISREL 8.8 tool on 196 respondents from undergraduate and postgraduate students of Faculty of Computer
Science, Universitas Indonesia. Our findings showed that the ease of use and perceived usefulness of the
collaborative tools drive the students to use collaborative tools when doing their tasks. The existence of
collaborative learning is also a driving factor for the students to use collaborative tools. In addition, the use of
collaborative tools also showed a positive influence to the team performance.
INTRODUCTION
Good quality education is one key to improve the human resource capacity. Data from Human Development
Index (HDI) placed Indonesia at rank 121 out of 185 countries in 2013 (United Nations Development
Programme, 2013). This shows the level of quality of human resources in Indonesia is still far from the expected.
One of the efforts made to improve the human resource is the transformation of education, shifting from teachercentered
learning to student-centered learning. One of the student-centered methods applied in many universities
in Indonesia is collaborative learning which requires students to work in group.
Doing the task in group requires an ability to manage and adjust time each other, so they can do the discussion
which lead them to solve the problem in the assignment. Process of communication, coordination, and other
factors like trust, understanding each other, cohesion, and conflicts will become concerns in a group
collaboration that separated by location and time (Naik & Kim, 2010). With the existence of information
technology, students will not need to think about how to adjust physical meeting schedule. They can do the
discussion even from different location. Information technology tools that support student’s collaboration
activities to accomplish the task are called collaborative tools (Munkvold, 2003).