Sus Nyrop :: Blog :: Janet Salmons' taxonomy of collaborative e-learing

Janet Salmons, Ph.D was interviewed by Beth Kanter about her dissertation and her work  in general as an online educator at Capella

Her dissertation  on collaborative e-learning,  was based on interviews with  ten educators from five countries, using a multi-media platform and voice over Internet. 

Janet developed this Taxonomy of Collaborative E-Learning - a "framework for understanding levels of collaboration and ways to organize learning activities so participants learn to achieve collective outcomes. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively—whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. I'd like to see people have a variety of purposefully designed collaborative learning experiences so they are prepared to work collaboratively in professional life."

I've been reading a summary with the taxonomy, which I find is eye opening and helpful. I really like the illustrative way she is using icons with arrows in more colours  intertwined, circling or parallel.  I would like to examine some WIA  CoP related data with this approach in a near future.  Janet Salmons will be one of 6 new PhDs presenting their thesis work in the CPSquare dissertation fest (for members and invited participants).