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Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-07-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This book's purpose is to inform educators and instructional designers of issues and cultural misunderstandings that could hinder the effective transfer of knowledge when e-learning is exported to other cultures. Addressing these cultural challenges will enhance the effectiveness of e-learning, thereby supporting the societal benefits of increased access to education at a global level"--Provided by publisher.

Cases on Cultural Implications and Considerations in Online Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

Cases on Cultural Implications and Considerations in Online Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-07-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Expectations – of life, work, education, and so forth – are rooted in cultural values. As a result, access to an engagement with online learning is a culture-bound experience. Cases on Cultural Implications and Considerations in Online Learning illustrates ways in which to reach and engage learners across cultures by using online learning that accommodates cultural differences and preferences. This casebook helps online educators understand what cultural expectations their students have before they create online programs and tailor their instructional designs for multicultural and international learners.

Third Place Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Third Place Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-06-01
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  • Publisher: IAP

The hybridity and dynamism of today’s interconnected, interdependent and culturally diverse world poses challenges and opportunities for learning and communication. This book introduces an approach to facilitate global learning opportunities, while facing these challenges. The approach is based on the cage painting metaphor for dialogic co-construction of meaning, and understanding of multiple perspectives. Resolving disorienting dilemmas or preconceptions requires a dialectic flow of thinking since the root of the problem may lay deep in person’s beliefs and values. Such experiences might be transformative in their nature, causing change in person’s perspective; better understanding t...

Intercultural Rhetoric and Professional Communication: Technological Advances and Organizational Behavior
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

Intercultural Rhetoric and Professional Communication: Technological Advances and Organizational Behavior

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-12-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This book explores the theory and practice of rhetoric and professional communication in intercultural contexts, providing a framework for translating, localizing, and internationalizing communications and information products around the world"--Provided by publisher.

Trends and Issues in Distance Education 2nd Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Trends and Issues in Distance Education 2nd Edition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-07-01
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  • Publisher: IAP

Over the last decade, the field of distance education (and e-learning) has substantially strengthened and assumed a more international scope. There has been an impressive growth in the conceptual, empirical and experiential foundations of the field. Trends and Issues in Distance Education: International Perspectives (2nd Ed) captures a representative snapshot of the breadth of current global trends and issues in distance education theory, research, and practice. Through 21 chapters (from over 30 international authors), the book documents new developments in distance education scholarship and practice, presenting a diverse set of viewpoints on the trends and issues affecting this increasingly...

Human Rights and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2160

Human Rights and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-30
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

In today’s increasingly interconnected and global society, the protection of basic liberties is an important consideration in public policy and international relations. Profitable social interactions can begin only when a foundation of trust has been laid between two parties. Human Rights and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications considers some of the most important issues in the ethics of human interaction, whether in business, politics, or science and technology. Covering issues such as cybercrime, bioethics, medical care, and corporate leadership, this four-volume reference work will serve as a crucial resource for leaders, innovators, educators, and other personnel living and working in the modern world.

Intelligent Environments 2016
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 644

Intelligent Environments 2016

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-10-12
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

The term Intelligent Environments (IEs) refers to physical spaces in which IT and other pervasive computing technologies are combined and used to achieve specific goals for the user, the environment, or both. The ultimate objective of IEs is to enrich user experience, improve management of the environment in question and increase user awareness. This book presents the proceedings of the following workshops, which formed part of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE16), held in London, UK, in September 2016: the 5th International Workshop on Smart Offices and Other Workplaces (SOOW’16); the 5th International Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments...

Instructional Design: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2074

Instructional Design: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-03-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Successful educational programs are often the result of pragmatic design and development methodologies that take into account all aspects of the educational and instructional experience. Instructional Design: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications presents a complete overview of historical perspectives, new methods and applications, and models in instructional design research and development. This three-volume work covers all fundamental strategies and theories and encourages continued research in strengthening the consistent design and reliable results of educational programs and models.

Integrating Information & Communications Technologies Into the Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Integrating Information & Communications Technologies Into the Classroom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-10-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This book promotes state-of-the-art application of classroom technology for teaching and learning. Teachers, educational researchers, and scholars are offered some twenty chapters filled with practical applications research, practice, and thought-provoking stances on many of the key issues associated with teaching and learning in today's classroom environment"--Provided by publisher.

Virtual Learning Environments: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1831

Virtual Learning Environments: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

As the world rapidly moves online, sectors from management, industry, government, and education have broadly begun to virtualize the way people interact and learn. Virtual Learning Environments: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications is a three-volume compendium of the latest research, case studies, theories, and methodologies within the field of virtual learning environments. As networks get faster, cheaper, safer, and more reliable, their applications grow at a rate that makes it difficult for the typical practitioner to keep abreast. With a wide range of subjects, spanning from authors across the globe and with applications at different levels of education and higher learning, this reference guide serves academics and practitioners alike, indexed and categorized easily for study and application.