Assisting engineering educators from developing countries with the design and implementation of online learning

R. G. Jurado; T. Pettersson; Michael Christie

Assisting engineering educators from developing countries with the design and implementation of online learning
Paper in proceeding, 2010

In this paper the authors report on a course that was given in Cuba in 2010. The funding for the course came from the European Union, within the ALFA III program. The project was called US0+I; Universidad, Sociedad e Innovación and its aim was to facilitate the exchange of educational methodology and pedagogy between the partner countries that made up the US0+I consortium. Within this project the University of Boras was assigned the task of giving the above mentioned course about the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) in Higher Education. This paper describes the design and implementation of the course, with emphasis on how it was adapted to meet the needs of lecturers in a developing country. It also analyzes the results of research data that was collected during the duration of the course. The main aim of the research was to more clearly define key questions and issues in the area of cross cultural use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) as part of a larger action research project concerning ICT and cross cultural equity. The basic question that drives this research project is: What technical, social, economic and cultural differences affect the implementation of LMS in developed as compared to developing countries?

Learning management system

Information use

Information and communication technology

Teaching

Design and implementations

Information and Communication Technologies

Information communication technology

Cultural difference

E-learning

Information management

Educational methodologies

Developing countries

Engineering education

Curricula

Economic and social effects

Learning Management systems

Education

Higher education

Digital storage

Engineering educators

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R. G. Jurado

T. Pettersson

Michael Christie

Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers)

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Assisting engineering educators from developing countries with the design and implementation of online learning
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