Web-based teaching and learning across culture and age /

Web-based teaching and learning across culture and age /

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Author / Creator:Ke, Fengfeng.
Imprint:New York : Springer, [2013]
©2013.
Description:1 online resource (x, 170 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Subject:
Web-based instruction -- Cross-cultural studies.
Education -- Cross-cultural studies.
Learning.
Education.
Learning.
Web-based instruction.
Cross-cultural studies.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9851202
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Other authors / contributors:Chavez, Alicia Fedelina.
ISBN:9781461408635 (electronic bk.)
1461408636 (electronic bk.)
9781461408628
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Identity and diversity permeate teaching and learning. Technology-mediated learning environment designs are infused with cultural values, norms, and assumptions. In addition, age-related diversity mediates interactions, learning, perceptions of instruction, self-regulation, and experience with technology. Individual instructors and/or instructional designers are both cultural insiders and cultural outsiders to diverse groups of online learners. Learning difficulties are likely to arise when underlying pedagogical values, norms, and epistemologies in an online learning setting are culturally inappropriate or ineffective for a learner group. Instructors and learners are usually unaware of how identity and diversity manifest in teaching and learning, and hence experiencing challenges in negotiating academic norms. With limited empirical research available about online teaching and learning across culture and age, this book presents the findings of a two-year study in exploring an inclusive (i.e., multicultural and intergenerational) instructional design approach for online learning. The book provides readers an overall understanding of epistemological and pragmatic differences in how students from different cultures and generation groups learning online. Data-driven suggestions on the cultural analysis, design, and facilitation of an inclusive online learning environment are provided. Any professional in the area of online teaching and learning, researchers and educators alike, will benefit from the insights into cross-cultural and intergenerational teaching and learning provided.
Table of Contents:
  • Diversity in online learning contexts: Introduction and background ; Multicultural and intergenerational teaching and learning : current research ; A two-year research project on web-based teaching and learning
  • Study findings: Diversity in online learning interaction and participation ; Cultural constructs in teaching and learning ; Online interaction and instructional context design and learner success
  • Designing for success in online learning contexts: Inclusive design of online teaching and learning ; Promoting inclusive, deep learning in online contexts ; Concluding thoughts.

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