Collaboration, I was quite interested when the word was presented on the big lecture screen. I do think collaboration is one of the important skills that everyone should grasp and I have noticed in the Australia educational system we learn it since kinder. Once we really get out from the university, collaboration is the basic skill that is necessary to be able to survive in this society. I believe for media or communication work people is more important to be able to work collaboratively.

I was originated from China, the reason could be there are too many people, but the educational system there is completely different to Australia. When I first arrived to Melbourne I was in year 8 and I received the first collaborative group assignment in Geography, everything was new to me in particularly how the system works and how we divided work to each person. I found that learning within a group actually helped me a lot, I speak English as second language, so I need the local students to correct the grammar mistakes for me.