Learning Cultures in Online Education

"Combined, the studies in this volume are useful resources to those in the field and serve researchers, comparative educators, and instructors as they attempt to understand and increase the connections among people and improve learning experiences via online learning." Jayson Richardson, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA in Comparative Education Review, February 2010

Robin Goodfellow is Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology at the Open University. Marie-Noelle Lamy is Professor in Distance Language Learning at The Open University.

Foreword Professor Mark Warschauer, University of California, Irvine, USA; Introduction Robin Goodfellow and Marie-Noelle Lamy (The Open University, UK); 1 When the Solution Becomes the Problem: Cultures and Individuals as Obstacles to Online Learning Charles Ess (Drury University, USA); 2 Identity, Gender, and Language in Synchronous Cybercultures: A Cross-Cultural Study Charlotte N. Gunawardena (University of New Mexico, USA)), Ahmed Idrissi Alami (Purdue University, USA), Gayathri Jayatilleke (Open University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka), and Fadwa Bouacharine(Al-Akhawayn, Morocco); 3 Entering the World of Online Foreign Language Education: Challenging and Developing Teacher Identities Robert O'Dowd (Universidad de Leon); 4 From Face-to-Face to Distance Learning: The Online Learner's Emerging Identity Christine Develotte (Institut National de Recherche Pedagogique, France); 5 Being and Learning in the Online Classroom: Linguistic Practices and Ritual Text Acts Leah P. Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada); 6 Technology as a 'Cultural Player' in Online Learning Environments Anne Hewling (The Open University, UK); 7 Trouble and Autoethnography in Assessment Genre: A Case for Postnational Design in Online Internationalized Pedagogy Catherine Doherty (University of Quennsland, Australia); 8 New Learning Cultures: Identities, Media, and Networks Jay Lemke and Caspar van Helden (University of Michigan, USA); Conclusion Robin Goodfellow and Marie-Noelle Lamy (The Open University, UK); References; Weblinks.