Danielle Cannova's List: Internet Collabortaion

• • Online communities that enable healthcare professionals to efficeiently connect, collaborate, and share information on a 24/7 basis"
• • "To improve efficiency during clinical trials, these communities provide access to new information, enable sharing of best practices, and provide communications and updates. 

• • "Literature posits that professional development programs that include collaboration can help teachers meet their professional needs and control their professional lives"
• • "They can voice their needs and expectations to peers who share similar experiences"
• • "Teachers can discover new teaching roles and opportunities, develop new skills and find motivation in being a member of a group"
• • "Such communities offer teachers an avenue to engage in professional discussions, and connect with a wider peer group and seek support"
• • "Communities of Practice (CoPs) have undergone massive transformations with the advent of web technologies, with features such as interactive and reflective practices, have boosted the the development of rich online environments that promote the sharing of professional strategies." 

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• • "Online Learning Communities are attributed with making learning more efficient and effective"
    "Online social networking tools also offer clear advantages for the sharing of expertise and ideas amongst busy, time-limied, professionals. 

• • The use of wikis in education is of a potentially huge value. Wikis can be applied to foster collaborative work, to promote project based learning experiences, to open the work conducted in classroom to the world, to facilitate information exchange between groups and educational institutions, etc

• • "A Wiki is a web technology that allows a website or document to be collaboratively constructed and edited."
    "It is seen by many authors as an ideal tool for supporting the increase of collaborative work done by students"

• • A Wiki, derived from the Hawiian term for "quick", is considered a Web 2.0 technology that can be used to help teams work collaboratively. 
    
    Wikis are web-based sites that allow users to edit the material on the site. 

• • Teams who collaborated online with one another were able to generate better ideas and work with less guideline from an instructor. 
    groups that collaborated more were able to do a better job then teams who didn't collaborate as much

• • collaborative work promotes growth in communication, informed-decision making, and critical thinking among students

• • "Project managers can view their status in seconds. No longer to the have to create complex reports and use complex spread sheets to know where they are in a project. Doing nothing more than clicking on the project dashboard, the user can see if its on time or resourced accordingly. Web-based software can surprisingly increase , performance and efficiency within an organization"

• • "It wasn't that people didn't want to participate. This isn't a large district, but it's spread out geographically, and face-to-face meetings are difficult. It's just hard to get busy people together in the same place at the same time."
• • "Enhanced collaboration capabilities--particularly the sharing of lesson plans--were also at the heart of a culture-changing simultaneous rollout of a new curriculum and a new lesson-planning approach at the Acadia Parish School District."
• Enhanced collaboration capabilities--particularly the sharing of lesson plans--were also at the heart of a culture-changing simultaneous rollout of a new curriculum and a new lesson-planning approach at the Acadia Parish School District.

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• Online teaching actually requires a much higher level of emotional security and confidence in one's own professional competence. This is especially true at the middle-school and high-school levels. These students are socialized to think of computer technology as a reliable appliance, like a refrigerator. Online teachers must work hard to humanize their approach and not be turned into robotic extensions of such an appliance by their students.

• • "However, in Professor Tantam's opinion one of the greatest benefits of this kind of course is the kind of collaborative learning that it makes possible. As well as creating a built-in structure for sharing personal and professional stories as part of the process and providing access to vast quantities of resources online, the Septimus course has recently introduced certain web pages -- outside the key learning materials -- that students can add to and amend."
• • "Students can also vote for the most popular hyperlinks, so that the ones they find most useful appear first -- and they have the chance to contribute to pages where the course itself is written about and reviewed. He believes that this way of learning is helpful for students who may have lost confidence in their academic abilities, giving them the chance to rediscover a sense of themselves, what they believe and can achieve. And, in the wider context, he argues that collaborative learning -- which draws on a range of different sources and is contributed to by many different minds -- offers real possibilities for the future of the profession of psychotherapy."
• • "Sheffield University created the online learning environment on which it has based its own existential-oriented MSc in Psychotherapy Studies and which is also used by a range of training partners under a scheme known as 'Septimus'. These include the New School of Psychotherapy in London and a number of institutions in nine European countries including Sweden, Romania, Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic which have either taken the English system or translated it into their vernacular"

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• • "The question is how media properties can facilitate interpersonal trust. 
• • Avatars are expected to increase trust in Net-based collaboration 

• • "trust may no longer be available"
• • "trust is a hinge point for collaboration"
• • "humans are experiencing difficulties with building 'trust-relationships' for collaborative work groups in 'Cyber-space'"

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• • Socio-culteral learning focuses both on the individual and the social contexts which constitute the relationships of an individual, social, and cultural environments, such as trust, professional relationships, and authority relationships"
• • "There was no documentation to demonstrate the development of strong bonds among the reviewers. Trust relationships among reviewers were not clearly formed."
• • "When the trust relationship is lacking, scattered interactions and social bonds were observed between a few reviewers. Social interactions occurred slowly. No postings occurred until the third week of the review process." 
• • "The reviewers indicated they were waiting to see how other reviewers posted and shared their comments with the group"

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