Someday, whilst I still inhabit this fine planet of ours, I believe all organizations will be brimming across the diversity of employees, departments and business units truly demonstrating and employing a collaborative culture. What are the indicators that point to us stating, “yes, this is destination pervasive collaboration”. Sadly, I am not in possession of a collaboration crystal ball. How do you know when you have reached a collaborative culture? Culture collaboration collaborative culture engagementLike Peanut to Butter. Like Stanley to Cup. MORE >>

The Power Collaboration Users). collaboration technologies by users: . To get to the true state of the Collaboration Cycle , where users both contribute and consume, through strong and weak ties, employing the model in a continuous, authentic, receptive and enriching fashion, we have to ask our various users two questions: Where are you right now in the 0-90-9-1 continuum? How can we help you shift to become more collaborative? They are the individuals who, at a 0% collaboration level, are simply ‘aware’ of the 2.0 It is also known as the 1% rule. Educate. MORE >>

However Amplify seems to be a much more effective tool for collaborative learning than any other freely available learning tools today. There are top 6 Features in Amplify that makes it an effective tool for collaborative learning. The features above do make Amplify an effective tool for collaborative learning. What is your take on its use for collaborative learning? Tags: Collaborative Learning Learning Tools Amplify I recently came across this website called Amplify that works just like Twitter and other social networking sites. You do not have to repost it. MORE >>

In other words - How do we collaborate together in remote work teams to be as effective or even more effective than a team that works down the hall? Let me admit that I'm likely in over my head when talking about methods and tools for collaboration. At the core, when I look at what a team needs, it's a pretty simple list: Real-time Voice Screen Sharing Document Editing (sometimes) Asynchronous Share / collaborate on documents, web pages Discussion Notification Of course, I'm simplifying by leaving out things like video chat, recording, etc. It's truly a thing of beauty. MORE >>

Last week I got a message from Stephanie Ray and she asked me to take a look and review Nota , a free mobile collaborative learning platform which is available in a web format and as a mobile app. mobile tools mLearning OER collaborative learning mobile learning ebookAs she mentioned that it was linked to Open Educational Resources (OER) of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) textbooks, I got intrigued. They only launched in January 2013 so still beta, which is the nicest state as all of our remarks on the tool are as such welcomed. all over again. MORE >>