Taxonomy of Online Collaboration

The Taxonomy of Collaboration is based on the premise that collaboration is not a single activity, but a set of inter-related processes and work designs. By mapping these activities, the Taxonomy of  Collaboration offers a new  can be used for planning or analyzing online or hybrid virtual and face-to-face collaborations.

This new conceptual framework consists of a taxonomic schema for describing three essential processes and three levels of progressively more complex and integrated collaborative activities. The Taxonomy of Collaboration provides a framework educators, instructional designers or managers can use to create opportunities for a systematic progression of skills development in online collaboration.

The Taxonomy can be used in conjunction with the Collaborative Integration Paradigm for projects that entail interdisciplinary collaboration.

Watch an introduction showing how to use this model to plan and design collaborative projects.   Listen to a podcast interview with On Teaching Online. Download a handout to see the model. Three additional models, posted here, relate individual and collaborative ICT literacy and critical thinking skills with the tasks involved in online collaboration, and explore the use of visual communications in online collaboration.

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