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Individual and Socio-Cultural Framing of E-Learning

Individual and Socio-Cultural Framing of E-Learning

Bernhard Ertl, Kathrin Helling
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781466661547|ISBN10: 1466661542|EISBN13: 9781466661554
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6154-7.ch001
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Ertl, Bernhard, and Kathrin Helling. "Individual and Socio-Cultural Framing of E-Learning." E-Learning as a Socio-Cultural System: A Multidimensional Analysis, edited by Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė, et al., IGI Global, 2014, pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6154-7.ch001

APA

Ertl, B. & Helling, K. (2014). Individual and Socio-Cultural Framing of E-Learning. In V. Zuzevičiūtė, E. Butrimė, D. Vitkutė-Adžgauskienė, V. Vladimirovich Fomin, & K. Kikis-Papadakis (Eds.), E-Learning as a Socio-Cultural System: A Multidimensional Analysis (pp. 1-20). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6154-7.ch001

Chicago

Ertl, Bernhard, and Kathrin Helling. "Individual and Socio-Cultural Framing of E-Learning." In E-Learning as a Socio-Cultural System: A Multidimensional Analysis, edited by Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė, et al., 1-20. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6154-7.ch001

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Abstract

Considering e-learning as a socio-cultural system acknowledges that individuals are embedded within different contexts, influenced by the culture and the society the individual lives in. Designing beneficial e-learning scenarios means respecting these socio-cultural contexts and providing appropriate framing. This chapter introduces several aspects influencing e-learning from an individual and socio-cultural perspective. It firstly deals with the aspect of learners' collaborative knowledge construction in e-learning and introduces what this perspective means for the design and implementation of e-learning scenarios. The chapter looks at tools and shared external representations and shows how they can beneficially support learning processes and outcomes. In a third step, it looks at the individual's learning characteristics, for example an individual's prior knowledge, and socio-cultural biases relating to gender, ethnicity, and socio economic background, and discusses how these may be an obstacle for e-learning and how e-learning may help learners to overcome their biases. Finally, the chapter focuses on the issue on evaluation and provides suggestions to evaluate environments for e-learning from a socio-cultural perspective.

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