In the context of collaborative intelligence, one concept that deserves deeper exploration is distributed intelligence—the idea that cognition is not confined to the individual but is spread across people, tools, environments, and systems. This aligns beautifully with the affordances of e-learning ecologies, where learners interact with digital platforms, peers, and multimodal resources to co-construct knowledge.

Coined by Roy Pea (1993), distributed intelligence posits that thinking is enhanced when it is supported by external representations, technologies, and social interactions. In digital pedagogy, this means learners are not just absorbing content—they’re engaging with networks of meaning that extend beyond themselves.

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