Two leaders in the distance education field Stephen C. Ehrmann and Mauri Collins argue that: "There are at least two major reasons to go beyond student-faculty e-mail and threaded discussions for collaboration." This is from their article "Can Distance Enhance Quality?", which was published in the magazine Educational Technology (September 2001).http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/Collab_Distance.html

1.First, in education as (Chickering & Gamson, 1987) argued when formulating the well known "Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education," interaction among students is a powerful catalyst for improving learning outcomes.

2. Second, in business and other organisations collaborative skill is itself an important yet often vestigial outcome of higher education. For example, Boyatsis (1982) summarized research that showed that a major difference in the competences of excellent managers and those of average managers in the same roles was that the superior performers were skilled in the creation of coalitions. PopG suggests "creation of coalitions" could also be named collaborating for productivity, which is an Internet technology and methodology offered by Groove + PopG (PopGroove).