ERIC Number: EJ1111841
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 8
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A Schematic Description of the Nature of Video-Conferencing and Internet Exchange: Enhancing Global Understanding
Mupepi, Mambo
International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, v9 n1 p33-40 2014
The world is becoming increasingly one multicultural Global village and business and education transnational, which implies that students will need to recognize, accept, and adjust to cultural differences in communications to succeed in their studies as well as in their future careers. This presentation is fundamentally about a niftier way of intercultural learning and knowledge acquisition that adapts video-conferencing and Internet technology to build Web-based successful learning communities. Students can meet on interactive camera at least twice per week and thereafter at any time using Google mail during the semester effectively forming a knowledge community. The learning community can collaborate to develop the capacity to create diffuse and distribute experiential knowledge in boundary-less and Global campuses in virtual environments. Students from different universities will cohere to understand each other's culture without leaving their own countries. The method is cost-effective as compared to similar costly semester abroad and hiked out-of-state tuition rates. Students can access additional resources to enhance cultural competencies from the virtual libraries and faculty facilitating in the program without leaving their campuses.
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Internet, Communities of Practice, Global Approach, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Awareness, College Students
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