What Is Collaboration Anyway?
What is Collaboration Anyway?
It all begins with sharing. User-generated content spread along through various social media platforms is not a form of collaboration. Collaboration is defined as "the action of working with someone to produce or create something." Wikipedia is a prime example of collaboration. People from around the world are along to contribute to the website by adding information to a number of topics. An example is when I was in high school and my History class had to go research different topics to add facts to a Wikipedia page that someone else didn't discover. We worked in different groups and searched the internet along with textbooks to find different facts that weren't yet on the page. By doing this we were learning more about each topic and collaborating with different classmates and the other authors for when people needed the resource to further their knowledge on the topic.
It all begins with sharing. User-generated content spread along through various social media platforms is not a form of collaboration. Collaboration is defined as "the action of working with someone to produce or create something." Wikipedia is a prime example of collaboration. People from around the world are along to contribute to the website by adding information to a number of topics. An example is when I was in high school and my History class had to go research different topics to add facts to a Wikipedia page that someone else didn't discover. We worked in different groups and searched the internet along with textbooks to find different facts that weren't yet on the page. By doing this we were learning more about each topic and collaborating with different classmates and the other authors for when people needed the resource to further their knowledge on the topic.
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