Wales has moved to develop collaborative learning approaches within the education system and is now in the process of releasing a online educational portal.

The portal known as the Hwb allows educational institutes to share learning materials, creating a current library of over 80,000 individual items accessible over the web.

A further development of the portal project is Hwb+, this service is intergraded with Microsoft’s Office 365, allowing for users to edit documents with Office programs.

One of the key advantages of the Hwb+ portal programme is the ability for teachers to interact with pupils remotely and apart from set hours and rigid lesson plans.

At present ‘early adopter’ schools only have access to the program at present, but the collaborative systems are expected to rolled out across wales after a successful trialling period.

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