Symposium: Culture and eLearning Design:
Insights from the eChina~UK Programme
Organiser: Helen Spencer-Oatey
University of Cambridge
Symposium Overview
The aim of this symposium is to explore the question How,and to what extent, may culture impact upon effective eLearning Design? The presenters are all members of the eChina~UK Programme, an initiative established by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE). The programme comprises a number of Sino–UK collaborative eLearning development projects, along with an overarching research project (see http://www.echinaprogramme.org ). In this symposium, culture is defined broadly, to include not only national cultures (Chinese and British), but also professional cultures (e.g. academic and technical) and different communities of practice. The first session of the symposium focuses on Chinese–UK perspectives on pedagogy in relation to eLearning design; the second session takes a project management perspective on the impact of culture on collaboration and eLearning design.
Symposium Papers (.pdf)
The Influence of Chinese
Culture on Trainees' Online Behaviours in a Teacher Training Course
Zehang Chen
Culture and eLearning Design - Reflections
on Integrating F2F and Online
Eric Brewster, Nicola Cavaleri, Anny King and Christoph Zahner
Intercultural e-learning: Reflections on
Developing a Collaborative Approach to Pedagogy and Educational Technology
in a Sino–UK Context
Sheena Banks, Vic Lally, Liu Bangxiang and David McConnell
Addressing regulatory issues arising within
cross-national, collaborative eLearning development programmes
Caroline Windrum and Charles Crook
International Teamworking and eLearning
Design
Helen Spencer-Oatey & Min Tang
Bridging cultures in designing for learning:
An eChina project case study
Gordon Joyes
Keynote Speakers
Peter Goodyear, University of Sydney
Beijing Normal University
Vera A. Solis, Universidad Centroamericana
Lawrence Hamburg, Higher Education Academy
Sten Ludvigsen, Intermedia, Oslo
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