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Cultural issues in online learning - is blended learning a possible solution?

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posted on 2003-12-01, 00:00 authored by Elicia LanhamElicia Lanham, Wanlei Zhou
The emergence of cross-cultural classrooms has been steadily increasing in Australian tertiary institutions, due to the growing population of international students enrolling to complete their degrees. This increase in international students has signified a change in the student demographics, thus recognizing the differences in students’ learning styles, and indicating that a more flexible approach is needed for learner content delivery. Research has suggested that students from different cultures have varying compatibility with different learning environments. With tertiary institutions now expanding towards the online forum for delivery of units, these compatibilities of students are even more evident. Hence, in order to ensure that all students are able to participate in this domain, preparations are needed to accommodate all cultural types. Therefore with the emphasis on creating flexible learning environments for all students the blended learning approach has been suggested as a solution.

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Journal

International journal of computer processing of oriental languages

Volume

16

Issue

4

Pagination

275 - 292

Publisher

World Scientific

Location

Singapore

ISSN

0219-4279

eISSN

1793-6748

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2003, Chinese Language Computer Society & World Scientific Publishing Co.

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