Does the Internet encourage Collaboration or Cooperation?

Yellow Group

Draft Presentation

Introduction

"Collaboration is a philosophy of interaction and personal lifestyle whereas cooperation is a structure of interaction designed to facilitate the accomplishment of an end product or goal."

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The Student's Prayer (Umberto Maturana)Don't impose on me what you know,

I want to explore the unknownAnd be the source of my own discoveries

Let the known be my liberation, not my slavery

The world of your truth can be my limitationYour wisdom my negation

Don’t instruct me: let’s walk together.Let my richness begin where yours ends

Show me that I can stand on your shoulders

Reveal yourself so that I can beSomething different

You believe that every human being

Can love and create.I understand, then, your fear

When I ask you to live according to your wisdom.

You will not know who I amBy listening to yourself.

Don’t instruct me; let me be.Your failure is that I be identical to you.

(Quoted in Zohar and Marshall, 2001)”

This poem is taken from Carroll and Gilbert (2011) p10

Introduction

“educators are finding the value of using the Web for facilitating collaborative groups”

(Anderson, Reinhart & Slowinski 2001)

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internet

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Key Principle 1 – Developing a Community

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“Working in an online group adds to the complexityof the group work process” (McDonald and Gibson, 1998)

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Key Principle 2 - Technology

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Reflective view:“I can’t access the whiteboard, this

prevents me contributing to the written summary”

Reflective view:“I can’t access the whiteboard, this

prevents me contributing to the written summary”

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Key Principle 3 - Motivation

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Key Principle 4 - Privacy

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Summary / ConclusionAcademic view:

..definition of the internet

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