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I’ve known about Janet E. Salmons’s Taxonomy of Collaborative E-Learning. In a very simple but very very illustrative chart she points five levels of collaboration in an e-learning activity

• Dialogue
• Peer review
• Parallel
• Sequential
• Synergistic

each one involving more or less exchange of ideas between learners, including how this exchange happens in time.

I think I’ll use just the same taxonomy but on the other side of e-learning: in the teachers’ side. I know in most training projects (virtual or offline) there usually is one and only one teacher. But in e-learning for development (above all in our experience) collusion of different e-teachers is becoming a must, especially when these e-teachers are online volunteers.

Taxonomy of Collaborative E-Learning 1.0 (433 Kb)

If you need to cite this article in a formal way (i.e. for bibliographical purposes) I dare suggest: