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By Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams in EDUCAUSE Review, vol 45, no. 1 (January/February 2010). Authors discuss how and why the university should embrace collaborative learning and collaborative knowledge production.

From Channel Thirteen's Ed Online, books, articles, and websites that promote collaborative and particularly cooperative learning.

This explanation, from (channel) Thirteen/Ed Online, defines collaborative learning as the larger category of students learning in groups. Cooperative learning, a subset, is where students are in small groups, working together on structured activities. Work is assessed both individually and as a group.

By Eric Nee, Stanford Social Innovation Review, May 20, 2009. Rodin heads the Rockefeller Foundation and, in this interview, discusses their new initiative to fund organizations that work on innovation processes. The two examples are crowdsourcing (they fund InnoCentive, a for-profit that sponsors contests to solve other company's R&D problems) and collaborative competitions (they partnered with Changemakers, where the participants collaborate on each other's solutions).

By Hunter Boylan, published as Working Paper 8 for the Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy, December 2004. With a national scope, the paper examines the relationship between developmental and adult education in community college settings, the nature of collaboration between the two programs, and the characteristics that foster collaboration.

Scientists have discovered proof that the evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork, shedding new light on the origins of what it means to be human. The study appears online in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B and was led by scientists at Trinity College Dublin: PhD student, Luke McNally and Assistant Professor Dr Andrew Jackson at the School of Natural Sciences in collaboration with Dr Sam Brown of the University of Edinburgh.

Scientific study of how working collaboratively enlarges brain size

Quia is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. It provides instructional tools including: templates for creating online activities, online testing tools, access to over 3 million online activities and quizzes, a schoolwide network to promote collaboration, a centralized classroom management system, a class Web page creator and online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback

In addition to bookmarking the home page of this site (follow tag: wep), I have bookmarked the About page where James Gee welcomes users and explains his vision for worked examples.

This edition of UPDATE focuses on partnerships, beginning with an interview with Dr. Gene Bottoms, founder of High Schools That Work (HSTW). Dr. Bottoms provides important insights into the ways partnerships were used to create HSTW, as well as the ways they are necessary to involving high schools and community colleges in the implementation of Programs of Study. This volume also includes two invited articles, one by Dr. Pamela Eddy, College of William and Mary University, and Dr. Marilyn Amey, Michigan State University, that give OCCRL readers a glimpse into their new book on partnerships and collaboration, and a second by Dr. Louise Yarnell, who shares a model that she and her colleagues at SRI are developing for the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

By Derek Bruff in The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 6, 2011. The author discusses multiple methods of sharing academic information: social bookmarking, back channels and collaborative documents.

By Richard Perez-Pena, Education section, New York Times, July 20 2012. This article profiles the New Community College, CUNY's newest 2-year college, set to begin classes in September 2012. The school has been developed to test several leading theories of how to make community colleges better, including stricter requirements, no remedial classes per se (but all include a remedial component), experiential and collaborative work, and much greater student support. See tag ncc for related articles.

Our August launch meeting will be held on the New Community College campus; here is more about what makes the New Community College "new."

Collaborative tool for instructors and students to interact in real time to add synchronous content to asynchronous distance learning.

This paper sets out to demonstrate that creativity can be fostered in learners through use of such Web 2.0 technologies, and in particular, through tagging and its social form, folksonomy.

By Andy Lapham, Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, London, UK. This paper from the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on e-Learning includes a literature review and presents a cognitive analysis of tagging.

Open Wonderland bills itself as an "open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds."

"A nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration." Creative Commons recommended license is one of the standards for content that is freely shared online. The idea of open educational content has implications for teachers, students, publishers, colleges/universities, etc.

Google offers a collaborative writing tool (similar to MS Word), with JEC uses with her writing students in order to manage the draft-edit-revision process.

Part of Carnegie Mellon University, the Open Learning Initiative is, like GSCC, the recipient of a Gates Foundation technology-related grant. The grant is "for the collaborative development, use, evaluation, and continuous improvement of web-based open learning environments for high-demand "gatekeeper" courses" (from Gates Foundation press release).

By Klara Bolander Laksov, Sarah Mann, Lars Owe Dahlgren in Higher Education Research & Development, v 27 (2), June 2008, p 121-132. From the abstract, "this case study describes the process of a collaborative project aimed at increasing the educational quality at a research-intensive department...." Full-text is available for sale at this site. Check with your local library for access.

eduTecher is a great place to look at new educational technologies, or to find just the right technology to do a job (e.g. document collaboration or word clouds). Each tool is reviewed by the staff, and users can search the database various ways. While many tools have a K-12 focus, there are plenty that would be useful in postsecondary education as well.