Cases on Cultural Implications and Considerations in Online Learning

Edmundson, who designs culturally appropriate training courses and materials and teaches graduate courses on distance learning and educational technology, brings together 17 cases by a global group of researchers working in education, computer science, business, and other areas who discuss cultural implications and considerations in online learning. They focus on cultural expectations, and content, instructional, and institutional globalization, as they discuss designing culturally appropriate e-learning for those from an Arabic background, online collaborative art studios, Chinese postgraduate students learning online in New Zealand, incorporating other worldviews in course management and learning systems, developing and teaching an intercultural communication course online and the cultural implications of access, developing an e-learning course for a global legal firm, integrating culture with e-learning management system design, the instructional design process for courses on ethics and compliance, an educational application designed to develop intercultural empathy in teens, learning in cross-cultural online MBA courses, cross-cultural virtual classroom exchange programs, international collaboration in distance education, and other topics.

While this volume does not speak directly to teaching theology or religion, it does offer insights on cultural implications that will impact online pedagogical approaches, as well as course delivery in these disciplines. [...] Useful for faculty who are teaching online classes. This volume would make a good addition to theological libraries at institutions with online learning programs.