IGI Global Offers Free Access to "Designing Collaborative Activities to Promote Understanding and Problem-Solving"
Submitted by Amigos on Wed, 2015-03-04 15:01Ideas have sex. Well, at least that is what Matt Ridley said in his TED Talk about the interchange of ideas. Ridley argues that it is the meeting and mating of ideas that propels progress. Just as basic to human nature as reproduction, Clay Shirky argues, is our desire to use what he calls cognitive surplus to work together toward our common good. What Ridley and Shirky are talking about is collaboration.