“I Met My Husband on TV”
Collaboration & Shared Space

Janet Poley, President
American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)

April 11,, 2001

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1. “I Met My Husband on TV” Collaboration & Shared Space
   Jan Poley
   American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)
2. No More Teams
   
   • Thanks to the writings of Michael Schrage on Collaboration - originally published as Shared Minds the ideas evolved into his book No More Teams.
   • Schrage is frequently interviewed on this topic and a google search will take those interested to his work.
   
   

3. People Want Digital Collaboration
   
   • Masie training and education survey people are excited about the “words” digital collaboration and digital communities communities of interest, learning, practice and support
   
   

4. Virtual Classroom
   
   • Educators and trainers like this idea and want it easy and transparent BUT Not one person indicated that they learned to do their job in a classroom
   
   

5. Growing Up in Collaboration
   
   • Collaboration is a relationship with a dynamic fundamentally different from communication
   • Collaboration happens with people and with patterns and symbols people create
   • Collaboration has a “mystic”/affect
   • Collaboration requires mutual trust
   
   

6. Shared Creation
   
   • Design Circumstances
   • Serendipity
   • Need You can dislike each other and still collaborate - it’s not about “feeling good” - quality collaborations require quality tools
   
   

7. Watson & Crick-double helix
   
   • “Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.”
   
   

8. Architecture is Collaboration
   
   • Days of Frank Lloyd Wright are over
   • transportation consultant, acoustic consultant, interior designer
   • Collaboration is not a videoconference - is not about bandwidth
   
   

9. The Kitchen
   
   • Shared Space
   • No Recipes
   • Important Ingredients Shared Goals Competence Mutual respect, tolerance,trust Multiple forms of representation
   
   

10. Shared Space & Play
    
    • Blackboards,whiteboards,keyboards
    • Playhouse, treehouse,dollhouse
    • Prototypes,models,maps,references, touchstones Serious play - opportunities to be solved
    
    
11. Creating Learning Environments
    
    • Shared Space
    • Formal - Informal
    • Availability of sight, sound, structural, verbal, mathematical, etc.
    • Media Attributes
    • Experiential Learning Model
    
    

12. Collaborative Worktools
    
    • Flipcharts, papernapkins
    • Technology doesn’t substitute - it complements
    • Processes - brainstorming, organizing, evaluating etc.
    • About augmentation and relationships - not as much about information and automation
    
    

13. Building Collaborative Architecture
    
    • Co-presence
    • Structures that endure, useful, inspire
    • Create curiosity, excitement, intensity, suspense
    • Allows multiple views - representations-changes to parameters, rhythm-flow-tempo-flexible - spontaneous
    
    

14. Research Agenda (CREW)
    
    • Learning environments-shared space
    • Being there versus seeing there
    • Trust without touch
    • Distance, dependencies, delay
    • From laboratory to collaboratory
    • Voice - Video and Meaning
    
    

15. Collaborative Organizations
    
    • ADEC example - Shared Goals
    • Shared Space
    • Continuous but not continual communication
    • Housework
    • Collaborative Worktools
    • Passion - rituals
    
    
16. Important Factors
    
    • Reciprocity
    • Put in - Get Out
    • Open Systems
    • Shared Space
    • Quality Tools
    • Standards
    • Scalability & Sustainability
    
    
17. Educational Effectiveness
    
    • Journalism Class
    • NSF Grant
    • Better environments - lights - sound - visualization
    • Better tools - indexing, sorting, searching, playing, capturing, summarizing, representing dynamically
    
    
18. Living Collaboration
    
    • Working with researchers
    • Working with faculty
    • Working with colleagues
    
    
19. Collaboration Is About:
    
    • Relationships
    • Environments
    • Engagements
    • Living