Adoption of Google Forms for Enhancing Collaborative Stakeholder Engagement in Higher Education

Abstract

Adopting Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Education is essential in 21^st century to support, enhance, and optimise the delivery of information. ICT tools makes the education simpler and vibrant to all parts of the nation. Higher Education involves various stakeholders with multiple roles due to which collecting and analysing the responses is challenging task for the coordinators. Google Forms as part of ICT tools are used in data collection for various course registration/responses by the organizations. These collective help in authenticity, visualization and official timestamp. This paper highlights role of Google Forms used for conducting various surveys at RV College of Engineering. The process was enhanced using ICT for data collection from various stakeholders with the concept of anytime, anywhere. It was made flexible and streamlined through google forms by importing the responses from google forms in required file format for analysis and provide overall insights to all stakeholders in higher education.