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Home > Key Discipline Specific & Educational > Team Working Team WorkingReviews and ReportsSeveral articles and useful discussion on the concept of collaborative learning can be found on the Deliberations website: http://www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/collab.learning/ Recently there is a focus on employing information and communication technology to support collaborative learning in a network (e.g., Networked Collaborative Learning: An Institutional View; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00001335.htm). Collaborative Learning on the Web aka. Networked collaborative learning was described by McConnell (1999b) as: the bringing together of learners via personal computers linked to the Internet, with a focus on them working as a learning community, sharing resources, knowledge, experience and responsibility through reciprocal. In the education context it is important to realise that interaction or collaboration does not just happen. The role of lecturers and teachers is increasingly that of a facilitator as outlined by Maurie Collins and Zane Berge in "Facilitating Interaction in Computer Mediated Online Courses" (http://www.emoderators.com/moderators/flcc.html). Similarly the article "Collaborative Learning in the Virtual Classroom: Lessons Learned and a New Set of Tutor Guidelines" (http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/0102/web_1.htm) by Dr. Julie Richardson and Anthony Turner points to the adjustments in pedagogy that are necessary to make networked or virtual learning successful. Architects have for about a decade or so explored issues of collaborative design across geographic space and incorporated this into the curriculum, see for example:
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