An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure?

Gouseti, Anastasia

Abstract

The notion of school collaboration has become widely recognised as an effective means of fostering cultural links and supporting communication between geographically separated schools. As shall be acknowledged in this paper, school collaboration follows on from a long history of collaborative initiatives across the past 50 years. However, the introduction of digital technologies and the internet in the 1990s has raised new challenges and created new opportunities for ‘telecollaboration’ whilst the growth of social media over the past five years is seen to have transformed the ways in which online collaboration is experienced by most end users. Based on a review of the existing body of literature, this paper offers a critical overview of current models of web-based collaborative programmes – attempting to map out the complex nature of school collaboration and consider the actors and factors that can shape successful implementation into educational practices.

Citation

Gouseti, A. (2013). An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure?. Cambridge Journal of Education, 43(3), 377-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2013.792785

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 28, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Apr 30, 2013
• Publication Date: 2013-09
• Deposit Date: Jan 28, 2020
• Journal: Cambridge Journal of Education
• Print ISSN: 0305-764X
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-3577
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 377-390
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2013.792785
• Keywords: School collaboration; Telecollaboration; Digital technologies
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1789180
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305764X.2013.792785