Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges

✍ Scribed by Andrea Edmundson, Andrea Edmundson

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 375
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges explores the issues educators, administrators, and instructional designers face when transferring knowledge and skills to other cultures through e-learning. Most e-learning courses have been designed in Western cultures, but the largest and fastest-growing consumer groups live in Eastern cultures. Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges presents a broad perspective of culture and e-learning issues, relevant research, implications of cultural differences in online education, and the anticipated challenges to implementing e-learning in other countries. It also explores theoretical philosophies of education, and examines issues related to language. Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges gives researchers, educators, and administrators several practical approaches to analyzing and adapting e-learning for other cultures.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Page......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 4
Foreword......Page 7
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Section I: The Big Picture: Culture and E-Learning from Global Perspectives......Page 16
Ch I: The Meaning of Culture in Online Education: Implications for Teaching, Learning and Design......Page 18
Ch II: Challenges to Implementing E-Learning in Lesser-Developed Countries......Page 35
Ch II: Designing Quality Online Education to Promote Cross-Cultural Understanding......Page 52
Ch IV: African Education Perspectives on Cultural and E-Learning Convergence......Page 77
Ch V: Intercultural Dimensions in the Information Society: Reflections on Designing and Developing Culturally-Oriented Learning......Page 91
Section II: Western Philosophies and Theoretical Foundations in E-Learning......Page 106
Ch VI: Theorizing and Realizing the Globalized Classroom......Page 107
Ch VII: Do the Philosophical Foundations of Online Learning Disadvantage Non-Western Students?......Page 133
Ch VIII: Theorizing a Multiple Cultures Instructional Design Model for E-Learning and E-Teaching......Page 147
Section III: Language and Semiotics......Page 171
Ch IX: How to Globalize Online Course Content......Page 172
Ch X: E-Learning Localized: The Case of the OOPS Project......Page 185
Ch XI: What Can Cave Walls Teach Us?......Page 204
Ch XII: Electronic Paralanguage: Interfacing with the International......Page 226
Section IV: Addressing Issues of Cross-Cultural Instructional Design......Page 239
Ch XIII: Adapting E-Learning Across Cultural Boundaries: A Framework for Quality Learning, Pedagogy, and Interaction......Page 240
Ch XIV: Universal Design for Culturally-Diverse Online Learning......Page 256
Ch XV: Beyond Localization: Effective Learning Strategies for Cross-Culture E-Learning......Page 272
Ch XVI: The Cultural Adaption Process (CAP) Model: Desgning E-Learning for Another Culture......Page 284
Ch XVII: Communication Barriers and Conflicts in Cross-Cultural E-Learning......Page 308
Ch XVIII: Multi-Cultural E-Learning Teamwork: Social and Cultural Characteristics and Influence......Page 324
Ch XIX: Modern Technology and Mass Education: A Case Study of a Global Virtual Learning System......Page 344
Section V: Conclusion......Page 357
Ch XX: The Treasure Trove......Page 358
About the Authors......Page 360
Index......Page 366