Role of blended cultures in enhancing teacher and learner performance outcomes
Barton, Siew Mee and Sargent, Jason 2009, Role of blended cultures in enhancing teacher and learner performance outcomes, in ED-MEDIA 2009 : Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2009, AACE, Chesapeake, Va., pp. 323-330.
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Role of blended cultures in enhancing teacher and learner performance outcomes
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications
Start page
323
End page
330
Total pages
8
Publisher
AACE
Place of publication
Chesapeake, Va.
Summary
This paper explores the enhancement of teaching and learning perfonnance outcomes from the perspective of educators from different cultural backgrounds and a very large mix of international students. The research milieu focuses on social connectivity, peer-ta-peer networking and peer-ta-peer meDtaring amongst teachers, tutors and students; particularly aspects of trust and cultural awareness between teacher and learner. The key findings of this research are that the social capital dimensions of trust and reciprocity, and the notion of academic guanxi can assist academics and institutions to better understand ways in which to optimize teaching and learning. The result is a pool of educators who have become change-agents by inspiring a network of their peers in using components of a collective cultural toolkit as a culture reference point.
ISBN
1880094738 9781880094730
Language
eng
Field of Research
130306 Educational Technology and Computing
Socio Economic Objective
930599 Education and Training Systems not elsewhere classified
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