Gene Bellinger writes an interesting article Change Management - The Columbo Theory which includes this quote about managing change. This has significant implications for collaborative writing and active learning.

It depends on whether one can integrate self and other to create selfless. It depends on whether one can integrate dependent and independent to create interdependent. It depends on whether one can develop a sense of self and self-awareness which is independent of the event, and establish an intent, as Senge and Fritz put it, for the pursuit of truth. Not my truth, or your truth, but more of an appropriate truth.

There is a link to another article entitled It depends that covers a lot of reseach and theory on modeling, simulations and learning, especially within organizations and “systems.”