Are collaboration and teamwork the same thing?

Answer 1

“Collaboration occurs when two or more people interact and exchange knowledge in pursuit of a shared … goal. (1)” “Teamwork means collaboration among students to produce a product for the quality of which team members have joint responsibility. (2)” Thus, both collaboration and teamwork involve two or more people working together. Collaboration implies the sharing of knowledge or information, while teamwork implies nonverbal physical cooperation. However, the terms are often used synonymously.

(1) http://collab.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Collaboration#nid132
(2) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:Teamwork&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

Answer 2

teamwork is collaboration but for a larger group working together. Collaboration can be individual people working on the same project separately

Answer 3

Yes, both are about working together to achieve something an individual could not achieve on his/her own, generally something that has never been done identically before.

Collaboration and teamwork are collective creative activities. They becomes possible when the parties allow each other to improvise and they each respect and respond to the other's contributions. Essentially they continually learn from each other and break new ground as they find the way to achieve their objective.

This is/was equally true for the Indianapolis Colts, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Watson and Crick, and the cast of The Departed.

Answer 4

Collaboration in Special Education generally means that a Resource Specialist is collaborating with a regular education teacher who has special education students in that class. Yes, it involves team work and putting personality conflicts aside.

Answer 5

No.