ERIC Number: ED557277
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Jul
Pages: 10
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ISBN: 978-989-8704-08-5
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Culture, Gender and Technology-Enhanced Learning: Female and Male Students' Perceptions across Three Continents
Richter, Thomas; Zelenkauskaite, Asta
International Association for Development of the Information Society, Paper presented at the International Conference e-Learning 2014. Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Lisbon, Portugal, Jul 15-19, 2014)
With the on-going "Learning Culture Survey", we aim to foster the implementation of culture-sensitive education. The motivation of this study is based on the need of a better understanding of the reasons for intercultural conflicts in education. These issues are particularly pertinent to international learning scenarios, such as in urban education, or Internet-based e-Learning. The results of this research are geared towards a development of activities that prevent students from losing their initial learning motivation. With our standardized questionnaire, we collected and analysed data from Germany, Ghana, and South Korea. In such a comparative culture-related analysis, the population is usually considered as a whole, regardless of the respondents' socio-cultural differences and assuming a single representative value per item. In this paper, we first analyse and discuss the results of our questionnaire section "Gender Issues". Afterwards, we analyse the overall questionnaire data to focus on the extent to which female and male students' answers differed. Finally, we engage in a discussion to what degree these differences impact the design of e-Learning scenarios. [For full proceedings, see ED557189.]
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Gender Differences, Culture Conflict, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Surveys, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Gender Issues, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Likert Scales, Attitude Measures, Student Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Teaching Methods, Equal Education
International Association for the Development of the Information Society. e-mail: secretariat@iadis.org; Web site: http://www.iadisportal.org
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany; Ghana; South Korea
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