Collaboration – we will all, in our doctorate degrees be required to work with others, and specifically in a remote setting. As a personal example, I put a presentation together without ever meeting my co-chair in a presentation on the use of custom programming and design using web-based solutions for testing student progress in learning outcomes for a computer, web-based class. Likewise, I have worked with my committee chair without having meet him, thus far.
Cooperation, collective action, participatory media and complex inter-dependencies play a significant role in the ways we organize and process to perform tasks. We have moved to a more independent society. Because of this independence, we are now moving back to integration with others, although we still collaborate with others using our television, phones, and computers. While working independently provides us insight to others thoughts – after all, nothing grows in a vacuum, not even thought and logic.
1. Temperance and restraint are necessary – in all things as we are known to use up resources (prisoner’s dilemma) because we often don’t use rational
2. New forms of Cooperation create new Economic Forms - open source develops new forms of development and wealth – peer-to-peer – this can create global market solutions that have not been seen in the past for open source production such as Linux and Mozilla, Amazon has opened its API to further use and development, Wikipedia for resources by inputs from around the world, Bit torrent turns every down-loader into an up-loader, etc.
Simply put, collaboration causes growth but not necessarily to become better people.
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