The future possibilities of online collaboration is endless. With teaching an online course, it has been shown that online collaboration is a must for improving engagement, better retention of content, and an improved climate and culture in the online classroom. Students often showed that they enjoyed online courses better when there was online collaboration apart of the coursework. I believe the most important part of the teaching an online course is to provide students the opportunity to work together and build a community among students and this sense of understanding that they are to complete this together.
The implementation of game based online collaboration is something where I would expect growth, coming up with projects and developments within a game or we based application is something that I could see educators expanding the landscape and creativity of the classroom. By using a combination of tools video based, and text based tools for online collaboration it should and will be a blended approach of synchronously and asynchronously collaboration.