By Scott London Civic collaboration is a process of shared decision-making in which all the parties with a stake in a problem constructively explore their differences and develop a joint strategy for action. The ethic of collaboration is premised on the belief that politics does not have to be a zero-sum game where one party wins and one party loses, or where both sides settle for a compromise. While the term collaboration (and its various offshoots — collaborative leadership, community alliances, participatory problem solving, etc.) How does it differ from other models of cooperation?

Jane Hart , in response to my comment on Manish’s blog post, was wondering what I meant by structured construction and tracking models for teaching-learning in a Learning 2.0 world. guess this is as good a time as any to start throwing some ideas around for discussion. Thanks Jane, for forcing me to think harder! Let us first look at teaching-learning activities and see if we can identify some of the key components of these activities. Goals/ Object of Learning. In any learning activity, the goal is to learn. For this post, I want to focus on the former. Measurement. Improvement. In a 2.0