Hui JiThe Impact of Culture on Preferences for E-learning Systems in Higher Education
A Comparison between China and Germany
- in englischer Sprache -
Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis, Band 295
Hamburg 2011, 212 Seiten
ISBN 978-3-8300-5832-8 (Print)
ISBN 978-3-339-05832-4 (eBook)
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As an international student in Germany, the author is part of a large community: more students than ever decide to study abroad. However, learning orientation and cultural adaptation issues are unavoidably associated with study abroad. An important option to address the problems is e-learning.
The present study verifies the German and Chinese students? cultural standards, teaching/learning cultures, and preferences for e-learning systems documented in the literature. In addition, it develops a causal model integrating cultural standards with cognitive and affective components in preferences to enable e-learning systems to adapt to a specific teaching/learning culture.