Difference between Cooperative learning and Collaborative learning:

Collaboration is a philosophy of interaction and personal lifestyle whereas cooperation is a structure of interaction designed to facilitate the accomplishment of an end product or goal.

Collaborative learning (CL) is a personal philosophy, not just a classroom technique. In all situations where people come together in groups, it suggests a way of dealing with people which respects and highlights individual group members' abilities and contributions. There is a sharing of authority and acceptance of responsibility among group members for the groups actions. The underlying premise of collaborative learning is based upon consensus building through cooperation by group members, in contrast to competition in which individuals best other group members. CL practitioners apply this philosophy in the classroom, at committee meetings, with community groups, within their families and generally as a way of living with and dealing with other people.

Cooperative learning is defined by a set of processes which help people interact together in order to accomplish a specific goal or develop an end product which is usually content specific. It is more directive than a collaboratve system of governance and closely controlled by the teacher. While there are many mechanisms for group analysis and introspection the fundamental approach is teacher centered whereas collaborative learning is more student centered.


Panitz, T. (1996). A Definition of Collabirative vs Cooperative Learning. [Online article]. Retrieved April 28, 2012, from the Worl Wide Web: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/collaborative-learning/panitz-paper.cfm

Collaborative Learning

Collaborative learning is an instruction method in which students work together to accomplish a specific goal. In this method students are provided freer activities focused on their social skills development. They are also responsible for their own learning and their peers’ one as well. Proponents of collaborative learning claim that the active exchange of ideas within small groups not only increases interest among the participants but also promotes critical thinking.

Collaborative Projects (n.d.). [Online article]. Retrieved May 1st, 2012, from the World Wide Web: http://www.tammypayton.net/courses/collab/what.shtml

Srinivas, H. (n.d). Collaborative Learning. [Online book]. Retrieved April 28, 2012, frome the World Wide Web: http://www.gdrc.org/kmgmt/c-learn/index.html

Cooperative Learning

Cooperative learning is a useful teaching strategy in which students of different levels are grouped in small teams in order for them to work together to achieve a common goal through the evaluation of their individual knowledge of a subject. In this strategy, each student is responsible for his own learning, as for his classmates’ as well. They work through the assigned activity until each member of the group understands the topic of the subject given. The activities presented should be “intellectually demanding, creative, open-ended and must involve higher order thinking tasks”. Ross and Smyth (1995). This strategy can help students to develop their social and communicative skills. It provides them satisfaction with their learning experience and it raises their self-esteem. 

Kagan, S. (1994). Cooperative Learning. [Online article]. Retrieved April 28, 2012, from the World Wide Web: http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm

Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

The Web 1.0 

The Web 1.0 (1991-2003) is the most basic form that exists and it is considered "read-only web". Socially, users could only view webpages but could not reflect on the content of the web pages (with comments, answers, quotes, etc.) which means that the users were not able to interact with each other, but this was intended in order to just offer information about a certain topic. To sum up information was not dynamic and was only updated  by the web-master.

Some design elements of a Web 1.0 site include:

• Static pages instead of dynamic user-generated content.
• The use of frame sets
• The use of tables to position and align elements on a page. These were often used in combination with "spacer" GIFs (1x1 pixel transparent images in the GIF format) 
• Proprietary HTML extensions such as the <blink> and <marquee> tags introduced during the first browser war
• Online guest-books
• GIF buttons, typically 88x31 pixels in size promoting web browsers and other products.
• HTML forms sent via email. A user would fill in a form, and upon clicking submit their email client would attempt to send an email containing the form's details.The Web 2.0

The Web 2.0 

The Web 2.0 is described as the second generation of the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Web 2.0 sites allow users to do more than just retrieve information and applications tend to interact much more with the end user. As such, the end user is not only a user of the application but also a participant by:

• Podcasting
• Blogging
• Tagging 
• Contributing to RSS
• Social bookmarking
• Social networking

To summarize here is a short list of differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

1. Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
2. Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
3. Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer 
4. Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs 
5. Web 1.0 was about lectures, Web 2.0 is about conversation

Drumgoole, J. (2006). Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0 [Online blog]. Retrieved April 28, 2012, from the World Wide Web: http://blog.joedrumgoole.com/2006/05/29/web-20-vs-web-10/

Wed 1.0 (2012). [Online article]. Retrieved April 28, 2012, from the World Wide Web:         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_1.0

Web 2.0 (2012). [Online article]. Retrieved April 28, 2012, from the Worl Wide Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

World Wide Web

Definition: The term WWW refers to the World Wide Web or simply the Web. The World Wide Web consists of all the public Web sites connected to the Internet worldwide, including the client devices (such as computers and cell phones) that access Web content. The WWW is just one of many applications of the Internet and computer networks.


It is a collection of Internet resources such as hyper-linked text, audio, and video files, and remote sites that can be accessed and searched by browsers based on standards such as HTTP and TCP/IP.

The World Web is based on these technologies:

• HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
• HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• Web servers and Web browsers

Researcher Tim Berners-Lee led the development of the original World Wide Web in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He helped build prototypes of the above Web technologies and coined the term "WWW." Web sites and Web browsing exploded in popularity during the mid-1990s.

Mitchell, B. (n.d.). WWW - World Wide Web [Online article]. Retrieved Aprl 28, 2012, from the World Wide Web: http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/worldwideweb/g/bldef_www.htm

Internet

The Internet is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks  that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. Through the internet users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers). 


Moreover, it uses the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email.


It was conceived by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. government in 1969 and was first known as the ARPANet. The original aim was to create a network that would allow users of a research computer at one university to be able to "talk to" research computers at other universities. A side benefit of ARPANet's design was that, because messages could be routed or rerouted in more than one direction, the network could continue to function even if parts of it were destroyed in the event of a military attack or other disaster.


Today, the Internet is a public, cooperative, and self-sustaining facility accessible to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Physically, the Internet uses a portion of the total resources of the currently existing public telecommunication networks. Technically, what distinguishes the Internet is its use of a set of protocols called TCP/IP (for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). Two recent adaptations of Internet technology, the intranet and the extranet, also make use of the TCP/IP protocol.
For many Internet users, electronic mail (e-mail) has practically replaced the Postal Service for short written transactions. Electronic mail is the most widely used application on the Net. You can also carry on live "conversations" with other computer users, using Internet Relay Chat (IRC). More recently, Internet telephony hardware and software allows real-time voice conversations.


The most widely used part of the Internet is the World Wide Web (often abbreviated "WWW" or called "the Web"). Its outstanding feature is hypertext, a method of instant cross-referencing. In most Web sites, certain words or phrases appear in text of a different color than the rest; often this text is also underlined. When you select one of these words or phrases, you will be transferred to the site or page that is relevant to this word or phrase. Sometimes there are buttons, images, or portions of images that are "clickable." If you move the pointer over a spot on a Web site and the pointer changes into a hand, this indicates that you can click and be transferred to another site.


Using the Web, you have access to millions of pages of information. Web browsing is done with a Web browser, the most popular of which are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. The appearance of a particular Web site may vary slightly depending on the browser you use. Also, later versions of a particular browser are able to render more "bells and whistles" such as animation, virtual reality, sound, and music files, than earlier versions.

Internet (2000). [Online blog]. Retrieved April 28, 2012, from the World Wide Web: http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/definition/Internet