Globalized e-learning cultural challenges / Andrea Edmundson [editor].
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 c...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Hershey, PA :
Information Science Pub,
c2007.
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| Online Access: | IGI Global e-Book Collection |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic document (xiv, 357 p.) : ill. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1280707224 1599043033 (Internet) (alk. paper)) 1599043033 9781280707223 9781599043036 (Internet) (alk. paper)) 9781599043036 |