Culture and Online Learning (eBook, PDF)

Global Perspectives and Research
Redaktion: Jung, Insung; Gunawardena, Charlotte Nirmalani

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a unique analysis of culture in online education from a global perspective. Written by international experts in the field of online learning, this text constitutes with a comprehensive comparative introduction to the role of culture in online education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000973563
• Artikelnr.: 68356367

Autorenporträt

Insung Jung is Professor and Chair of Education, Media and Society at the International Christian University in Tokyo. Before joining ICU in 2003, she served as the Director of the Multimedia Education/E-Learning Center at the Ewha Women's University in Seoul for three years. The Center was established to develop, deliver and manage e-learning programs for the University and involved in establishing numerous collaborative relationships with national, regional and international institutions to develop and deliver web-based distance education programs to professional women in the region and throughout the world. Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena is Regents' Professor of Distance Education and Instructional Technology in the Organizational Learning and Instructional Technology Program at the University of New Mexico. For over twenty years she has published widely and presented on distance education, eLearning, and Instructional Technology. She currently researches the social construction of knowledge in online learning communities, the socio-cultural context of online learning, social presence theory, and cross-cultural e-mentoring. She has served as Principal Investigator and Project Director for U.S. federal research and evaluation grants, and was a Fulbright senior researcher in Morocco and Sri Lanka. She has consulted for World Bank and Asian Development Bank distance education projects, and the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka to train online teachers and instructional designers for its National Online Distance Education Service.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures Foreword-Michael Grahame Moore 1. Perspectives
on Culture and Online Learning-Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena and Insung
Jung 2. Cultural Influences on Online Learning-Insung Jung 3. Culture and
Technology-Insung Jung 4. Online Identity and Interaction- Charlotte
Nirmalani Gunawardena 5. Emerging Visual Culture in Online Learning
Environments-Ilju Rha 6. Accounting for Culture in Instructional
Design-Casey Frechette, Ludmila C. Layne, and Charlotte Nirmalani
Gunawardena 7. Facilitating Online Learning and Cross-Cultural
E-Mentoring-Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena and Buddhini Gayathri
Jayatilleke 8. Supporting Diverse Online Learners-Charlotte Nirmalani
Gunawardena 9. Diversity in Expectations of Quality and Assessment-Albert
Sangrà, Stella Porto, and Insung Jung 10. Developing Global Digital
Citizens. A Professional Development Model-Chih-Hsiung Tu and Marina Stock
McIsaac 11. Leadership Challenges in Transcultural Online Education-Michael
F. Beaudoin 12. Gender Issues in Online Learning-Colin Latchem 13.
Transformative Learning Through Cultural Exchanges in Online Foreign
Language Teaching-Kerrin Ann Barrett 14. International Interpretations of
Icons and Images Used in North American Academic Websites-Eliot Knight,
Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena, Elena Barbera, and Cengiz Hakan Aydin 15.
An Analysis of Culture-Focused Articles in Open, Distance, and Online
Education Journals-Aisha S. Al-Harthi 16. Many Faces of Confucian Culture.
Asian Learners' Perceptions of Quality Distance Education-Li Chen, Xinyi
Shen, Aya Fukuda, and Insung Jung 17. Looking Ahead. A Cultural Approach to
Research and Practice in Online Learning-Insung Jung and Charlotte
Nirmalani Gunawardena About the Editors and Contributors Index