Reflection on Alec's seminar
As a continuation of my previous blog and reflection on the lecture of Alec Couros, there are different ways to collaborate. The way of how we collaborate depends on our personality. Wenger reports several concepts of communities of practice [1]. However, these concepts were discussed only once, and the description is so complicated that you start to think “how heavy the collaborative learning can be when you implement the author concept”. The singing students from Alec’s seminar evoke completely different thoughts about collaborative learning. Based on Siemens notes [2], the learner interactions can be viewed as four stage process: Communication Collaboration Cooperation Community Alex firstly communicated with the course participants about how they are going to participate. They collaborated through the singing a song. Collaboration means working alongside someone to achieve the final goal. Cooperation means making partners more able to do something. It is difficul
