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Let’s Collaborate
This is the official groundbreaking post for our blog. We are a newly organized team in the Next Generation Learning area at Capella. What we really want to is to connect with you, our constituents, fellow colleagues and users. This is your chance to get to know us, do a DITL (day-in-the-life) and tells us what you want! Maybe you’ve been working with new technologies on your own, or as a part of research, or just want to see what’s going on in the neighborhood.
Let’s kick-off this blog with some discussion on the topic of collaboration and specifically what it means for faculty to be able to collaborate with one another, albeit, from a distance. Tell us in your own words how you currently collaborate with other Capella faculty. What tools are you using (phone, email, blogs, wikis, etc.)? How much time per week is spent collaborating? What are the problems you’re facing?
3 Responses to “Let’s Collaborate”
Keith A. Morneau Says:
I think you might want to start with just how do faculty collaborate from a distance right now. When you do that, then you will probably get the tools we are using. The problem is you are going to get the limitations we face when we collaborate now and does not open the possibilities that other tools could contribute to collaboration. You may want to also ask us what external communities we belong to, how we collaborate, and why we collaborate. You may uncover different tools than we currently use right now which is limited to what we currently have.
Jack Krichen Says:
One area they try to collaborate on is the courses they teach. If we can somehow provide a forum around specific courses, or at least an easy navigation scheme to that area of discussion, we will satisfy some of the collaborative needs of our faculty.
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Jason Says:
Andrew, that’s a great first question. I think you’re really asking how we should define “collaboration” –and especially online collaboration– for the purposes of our team. I think it looks something like this: “Online collaboration is a set of tools and practices that enables colleagues to work together to complete projects cooperatively and efficiently, with minimal disruption from the circumstances of their individual temporal / spatial constraints.” Or at least that’s a start. Basically, that you and I have the equipment and the processes in place so that we can work together to get stuff done, despite the fact that I may be here and you may be there.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:58 pm