On-line Education and Cross –Cultural Problems (下)_计算机网络论文.docVIP

On-line Education and Cross –Cultural Problems (下)_计算机网络论文 On-line Education and Cross –Cultural Problems (下)_计算机网络论文 I also use the Internet to prepare students for my seminar’s trips to the US. I often take my seminar students to the United States to study various cultural aspects. I have taken them to places like the Navajo Nation, Chicago, New York and San Diego among other areas. To prepare for these trips the students lists things they are interested in doing or seeing. Then I have had groups work separately on the Net to gather information on things like the Blues, Jazz and the Holocaust. The groups had to report to the rest of the class on their discoveries. For example, last February one group of students reported on the Blues and made a list of Blues clubs they wanted to visit when we reached Chicago, another group reported on the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, and still another group reported on Broadway. In this way, the Internet was extremely valuable in preparing my students for their cultural experience in the United States making the whole experience much more valuable for them. Granted, this is not really distance eductions through the phone link. Granted, the visual was not of a high quality and the visual window was small, but our students were able to see the excitement and interest of the Angeles University students. This experiment also seems to disprove criticism that computers can not build patience in students. Of course, this was only a short test series of lectures and discussions, but the results were encouraging for distance education I believe. Although Bunkyo is not involved in an ongoing on-line education program itself, other universities report great success in the field. The Open University of the United Kingdom, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Nebraska, among others report excellent results from their programs. At the Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, hosted by the University of Wisconsin, Madi