Disposition+for+open+collaboration

What are the human requirements for open-cohort?

As I ask this question I am considering distributed teams, that is people who are geographically dispersed using Internet technologies to communicate and collaborate. It does not matter whether thegoal of their collaboration is learning, problem solving or creating.

Traditional work and school environments have contexts and patterns and, well, traditions that guide success and or failure. Now we have new ways of being and doing and I want to understand how successful groups navigate these distributed teaming conditions.

Are there individual and group habits or dispositions that support success in an open cohort? How might these habits or dispositions shape and be supported by new online tools. Are there social - "memic" expectations that are allowed to assert themselves in non tradtional group work that has more to do with social evolution than techno evolution? I want to tease out what has to do with working online and what just has to do with new ideas about collaboration. What are the Norms Preparations taken Transition strategies Expectations Ways of situating the members and the activities Roles and identities of members within Successful teams.