Learning Cultures in Online Education

by Goodfellow, Robin; Lamy, Marie-Noëlle

• ISBN13: 9781847060624
• ISBN10: 1847060625
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

With the growth of trans-national education online, more learners are experiencing learning environments characterised by cultural diversity. This timely book presents a view of recent thinking and practice related to globalised virtual learning environments, and suggests new ways of understanding the meanings that are created when learners, teachers, and institutions set out to create learning communities online. In doing so it will help to construct a new idea, that of the learning culture, which will be of particular relevance to researchers and practitioners in the rapidly expanding field of global online education. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Robin Goodfellow is Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology at the Open University. Marie-Noeumlet;lle Lamy is Professor in Distance Language Learning at The Open University.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. x
Introduction: A Frame for the Discussion of Learning Cultures	p. 1
When the Solution Becomes the Problem: Cultures and Individual as Obstacles to Online Learning	p. 15
Identity, Gender and Language in Synchronous Cybercultures: A Cross-Cultural Study	p. 30
Entering the World of Online Foreign Language Education: Challenging and Developing Teacher Identities	p. 52
From Face-to-Face to Distance Learning: The Online Learner's Emerging Identity	p. 71
Being and Learning in the Online Classroom: Linguistic Practices and Ritual Text Acts	p. 93
Technology As a 'Cultural Player' in Online Learning Environments	p. 113
Trouble and Autoethnography in Assessment Genre: A Case for Postnational Design in Online Internationalized Pedagogy	p. 131
New Learning Cultures: Identities, Media and Networks	p. 151
Conclusion: New Directions for Research in Online Learning Cultures	p. 170
References	p. 184
Internet References	p. 209
Author Index	p. 210
Subject Index	p. 215
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