Not sure if I’ve got this right or simply leaped to a hasty conclusion:
- Collaborate, Hierarchy, Top Down
- Cooperate, Mesh, Bottom Up
Slide 43 from this excellent talk made me think it so:
Hoping someone will jump in and correct me if I am being too concrete.
Listen to the whole talk and note the subtle difference between cooperation and collaboration (my notes are ambiguous - but I was sitting on public transport at the time). Think about the top-down nature of hierarchical organisations/institutions and the bottom-up nature of mesh networks. (dare I say ’stigmergy’ ?). See if you can find clues about the explosion of the read/write web and the angst this seems to be causing institutions/corporations.
Fang - Mike Seyfang
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concetta
// Apr 22, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hi Mike, this got me thinking about my uni assignment on EdTechTalk. I did some research and the definitions of cooperation vs collaboration seem very ambiguous.
Does it have to be an either or situation? I like the idea of a very inclusive progressive Web2.0. I think this type of web needs to use a variety of tools to achieve it’s end - maybe this could also alleviate some of the angst.
I wrote a blog post on it here -
http://edusnacks.edublogs.org/2008/04/21/collaborative-learning/
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