Construction of a Collaborative Learning Environment through Sharing of a Single Desktop Screen

In this study, we constructed an environment conducive to enhancing education efficacy through an improvement of collaborative learning in higher education. In the process of collaborative learning, one faces a variety of situations, for instance, “discussion on learning themes” and “work to draw up materials and reports pertaining to learning.” One of the styles of collaborative learning is to proceed with discussion or work by exchanging opinions among participants while writing down figures and words on a single blackboard. In this manuscript, we propose to replace the blackboard with a tablet PC with the view of omitting complicated tasks involved in each process of learning to facilitate its progress, thereby creating a collaborative learning environment where the participants can concentrate on learning itself. Furthermore, this manuscript also refers to the results of a collaborative learning program that was actually implemented on computer programming. Lastly, we touch on some advantages and issues associated with such learning environments including application in cases where the participants of a learning program live separately in remote areas.