A Review of the Historical Perspectives on Various Collaboration Paradigms

Abstract

Collaboration is when individuals agree to work together to find solutions. Collaboration efforts have been found to benefit student learning with varying learning levels of competencies; however, there are various aspects that can have a moderating effect like individual characteristics, group components and the nature of the tasks. This paper studies the existing literature from the early 1990's till recent work about the historical frameworks regarding collaboration, and further tries to share the understanding about the various collaboration paradigms that have been established.