Group items tagged

1) A sense of shared purpose 2) Establishment of boundaries defining who is a member and who is not 3) Establishment and enforcement of rules/policies regarding community behavior 4) Interaction among members, and 5) A level of trust, respect and support among community members

When these interactions among community members are directed toward the purpose for which the community was formed, it is considered collaboration

Woods & Ebersole (2003) assert that optimal learning outcomes are “directly tied to the establishment of social networks among participants engaged in a collaborative learning enterprise”