Types of Virtual Collaboration
Synchronous: Synchronous collaboration occurs when team members are able to share information and ideas instantaneously. Examples of synchronous virtual collaboration include instant messaging, chat rooms, and video or audio conferencing.
Asynchronous: Asynchronous collaboration occurs when team members communicate without the ability to instantly respond to messages or ideas. Examples of asynchronous virtual collaboration include e-mail, discussion boards, application-specific groupware, or shared databases.
Audio-conferencing: Audio conferencing allows collaborators to communicate verbally in real-time without the use of continuously updated, shared imagery. Examples of audio conferencing include phone calls, conference calls, or conference calls where people are also sharing views of images or documents.
Video-Conferencing: Video-conferencing is communicating with the use of real-time sharing of verbal and visual information. Video-conferencing includes continuously updated visuals of collaborators, diagrams, physical objects, or computer screens. Examples of video-conferencing are group video-conferencing in dedicated rooms and desktop video-conferencing.
Computer-mediated communication: Computer-mediated communication is defined as text, images, and other data received via computer without effective real-time voice or video images from collaborators. Examples of computer-mediated communication include E-mail, chat rooms, discussion boards, text messaging, instant messaging, shared databases, wikis, and application specific groupware.
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