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Cultural Insights in Online Learning: Unveiling Subtle Truths

Explore Hofstede's dimensions, cultural nuances, and key factors impacting online learning. Understand the collective aspects, timing importance, and family dynamics influencing virtual education in different cultures. Delve into cultural comparison and ethical implications for a holistic online teaching experience. Gain insights from the Tanzanian context and collaborative knowledge construction for effective cross-cultural learning.

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Cultural Insights in Online Learning: Unveiling Subtle Truths

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  1. Culture and Online Learning Subtle Truths

  2. Culture • Distinctive pattern of thought, action and value that characterizes the members of a society or a social group

  3. Collectively Learned • Hofstede • Hall – High and Low Context • Gunawardena

  4. Competitive Individuality Timing & scheduling Dualistic thinking Nuclear family Superior culture Task orientation Cooperation Collectivity Relativity of time Holistic Extended family Accept other culture Social orientation ComparisonWest(male) Non (female)

  5. Four Dimensions - Hofstede • Power Distance – equity • Tolerance for Ambiguity • Collective – Individual • Masculine-Feminine

  6. Central Question: Who designs what and for whom? • Language? • Pressing button? • Decoding • Interpretation • Visualization – concrete/abstract • Game like U.S. programs/not liked

  7. Issues • Interpretation of metaphors • Understandability and cultural relevance • Ethical Implications

  8. Tanzania Experience • Deep versus broad • 40 countries • Oral tradition • What you see is what you get • Authenticity • ELC – PPI – collaborative construction of knowledge

  9. KEY • Partnerships • Relationships • Networks • Teaching/learning and business models • Norms • Differences In fields of knowledge

  10. Example China • Collective teaching at defined time • Socialization and community most important • “hard hearted” computers – socialization must be present

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