The act of working together; united labor.

the act of willingly cooperating with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country.

Institutions, groups and/or individuals working together toward a common goal or cause.

Any creative partnership, memorialized by a "collaboration agreement" that spells out the responsibilities and rights of each party to the collaboration.

a fine way to implement a busy teacher's ideas

a fragment of a larger complete model that is intended for a particular purpose

a teaching model where the special education teacher comes into the classroom and co-teaches with the classroom teacher. This could involve teaching the whole class, small groups or individuals.

Collaboration within the IMPACT Model means that school library media coordinator and the technology facilitator work closely with teachers to plan, implement, and evaluate classroom lessons, units, and the overall instructional program.

a key tenet of KM, given that knowledge sharing--among colleagues and customers within and outside of the organization--is an effective means of transferring "know-how" or tacit knowledge between individuals and therefore critical to competitive advantage. View records related to this term

person to person peering, where people exchange textual, audio and visual information (instant messaging, shared whiteboards and more sophisticated collaboration facilitates)

The act of shared creation and shared discovery. Collaborating is more than exchanging information, but the act of using words, symbols, images and models for creating and sharing meaning in an useful context (Schrage, 1990).

The use of Web-based software for the purpose of sharing information between businesses or organizations. Design collaboration, for example, al-lows engineers at different companies to share plans and data in real time.

an interaction between one object or class with another object or class. Typically the first object or class invokes an operation of the other or accesses an attribute.

Synchronous and asynchronous communication tools used to connect groups of people.

context that supports a set of interactions. See: interaction.

Interaction of two or more parties - people and companies - related to a common topic. This includes sharing information and doing business. Characteristic of collaboration, instead of inte ration and coopera ion, is the loose coupling of the parties involved and the fast, flexible, ad hoc approach to successful interaction.

A helping relationship between a family member and a professional in a reciprocal relationship in which the family and professional share power and responsibility. The relationship is grounded in the belief that the family of a child with an emotional disorder can be a resource to the professional and vice versa.

a set of participants and relationships that are meaningful for a given set of purposes

A tricky concept for lawyers, where more than two parties contribute to the creation of a format of work. Where this occurs from shared enthusiasms and interests, or most dangerously, friendship, it can lead to messy litigation if the work attracts commercial exploitation. Agreed parameters should be set in advance depending on the relationship between the parties, leading to shared (also called 'joint') copyright, e.g. when it is not possible to distinguish one author's contribution from another's, or separate copyrights in the different elements of the work.

A relationship in which one author exploits another.

The specification of how a classifier, such as a use case or operation, is realized by a set of classifiers and associations playing specific roles. used in a specific way. The collaboration defines an interaction. See: interaction.

A collaboration describes a dynamic relationship that exists between objects. Additionally, a Classifier Role should be associated to the collaboration to illustrate the role an element plays in that collaboration.

a specification of how an operation or classifier is realized by a set of classifiers and associations playing specific roles used in a specific way