Collaboration is a key part of what The Open Univerity does - working with others to make education accessible to all. On day seven of OU Week on Wordia, honorary graduate and singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading defines the word collaborate.
Wordia.com, the online visual dictionary, is hosting an OU-themed week with seven Word of the Day videos defining a word that links to The Open University.
On Monday TV presenter Nick Barratt defined the word evolution, on Tuesday TV presenter Kate Humble defined the word literacy, on Wednesday Janet Sumner defined the word inspiration, on Thursday Gary Slapper defined the word education, on Friday OU honorary graduate Deborah Bull defined innovative, yesterday TV presenter and historian Dan Cruickshank defined pedagogy and today Joan Armatrading defines the word collaborate.
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Collaborate is when a person with a dominant personality subjugates others with appropriate skills into fulfilling the requirements of a task and then takes credit, that's what happens with collaboration, it's not a good thing because people aren't good by their nature but they're greedy.