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"Designing Collaborative Activities to Promote Understanding and Problem-Solving" offered for open access for the month of March

The Procreation of Ideation

By IGI Global on Mar 2, 2015
The Procreation of IdeationContributed by Dr. Barbara M. Hall, Ashford University, USA

Ideas have sex. Well, at least that is what Matt Ridley said in his TED Talk about the interchange of ideas. Ridley argues that it is the meeting and mating of ideas that propels progress. Just as basic to human nature as reproduction, Clay Shirky argues, is our desire to use what he calls cognitive surplus to work together toward our common good. What Ridley and Shirky are talking about is collaboration.

While collaboration and cooperation are often used synonymously, distinguishing these two terms is particularly helpful. Cooperation can be thought of as working in isolation on the same project. We take a project, assign each group member a piece of the project, and then each group member takes full responsibility for his or her piece of the final product. The other members of the team work in isolation on their pieces of the project. Collaboration, on the hand, means that each member of the team contributes to and revises each piece of the final product. Rather than working in isolation, the group works together through discussion, revision, and production of the entire project, not just individual pieces.

Applied specifically to education, collaborative learning occurs through joint activity related to the process of solving complex problems or engaging in authentic tasks during which any knowledge, skill, attitude, or attribute is acquired or any product or idea is discovered or created. With such a broad definition, how does one design experiences for collaborative learning?

Fortunately, in the article, "Designing Collaborative Activities for Understanding and Problem Solving", Dr. Barbara M. Hall synthesizes findings from the vast number of research studies that examine more narrowly focused aspects of collaborative learning. Dr. Hall has classified these findings into four categories - communication, structure, group composition, and grounding – each of which has more granular sub-components. These four categories and their sub-components are then applied to an industry example to further guide our application.

Perhaps applying these findings to our designs of collaborative activities will promote the meeting and mating ideas for progress of the common good, as Ridley and Shirky suggested.

Dr. Hall's article "Designing Collaborative Activities to Promote Understanding and Problem-Solving" is being offered for open access for the month of March. Access "Designing Collaborative Activities to Promote Understanding and Problem-Solving" here.


Dr. Barbara M. Hall is an Associate Professor and Program Chair of the B.A. Instructional Design program in the College of Education at Ashford University. She also serves as a consultant for a private firm specializing in re-designing on-site courses for online delivery. Dr. Hall earned a Ph.D. in instructional design and has 22 years of experience designing and facilitating training. She is a certified peer reviewer with Quality Matters and for multiple journals and conferences. She frequently presents and publishes her research focused on designing for intersubjectivity within peer-to-peer participation in online discussions and collaborative activities.

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