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Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
Online distance learning (ODL) has become a global phenomenon transcending national, political, and geographical boundaries challenging distance educators to re-examine notions of teaching and learning and issues of culture inherent in cross-border delivery of online courses and programs. Rogers, Graham and Mayes (2007) note that the sheer amount of learning content being developed in the West (defined for this chapter as Eurocentric, North American, Australasian) and exported via the Internet to other countries, highlights the crucial need to explore questions of culture more thoroughly in our online course designs to provide a more equitable learning experience for all. Global universities are faced with the choice between continuing to expect all students to adjust to traditional English-western academic values and uses of language, or changing their processes to accommodate others (Pincas, 2001).
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Title
Handbook of distance education (3rd Edition)
First Page
185
Last Page
200
Language (ISO)
English
Keywords
Culture, online distance learning
Recommended Citation
Gunawardena, C. N. (2013). Culture and Online Distance Learning. In M. G. Moore (Ed.), Handbook of distance education (3rd Edition) (pp. 185-200). New York, NY: Routledge.
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Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Handbook of Distance Education (3rd Edition) in 2013. Available online on http://www.routledge.com/.