A bit more reading...

Today I only read one article but it was extremely detailed and well researched. It was about collaboration in classrooms. He looked at collaboration in terms of the different theories related to it and how they have been tested. The main 4 theories about collaboration are:
1. Motivational Perspectives
2. Social Cohesion
3. Cognitive Perspectives
4. Cognitive Elaboration Perspectives


They are all different theories with different rationales but at the end of the day they all are used to varying degrees in most collaborative group work activities that I've seen. It is hard to place them within the online collaboration framework that I am looking at due to the collaboration happening online instead of face to face but as I've read before pupils communicate and socialise on the internet now!