Jill Slay, Flexible Learning Centre, University of South Australia, The Levels Campus, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia. jill.slay@unisa.edu.au
Online Learning Environment, Higher Education, Australia, China, Cross-cultural.
This paper, the result of 2 months collaboration in teaching and research at the Shandong Institute of Architecture and Engineering, gives a joint Chinese/Western perspective on the current role of the Internet in Chinese Higher Education. It gives, from a Chinese perspective, an overview of the current development of the Internet in China and gives some examples of its usage in Shandong Province. It also provides a Western perspective on the Chinese higher education system and some interpretive tales of Chinese students and their computers. It also examines the changes which will be necessary both in pedagogy and technology, to allow to medium be used to its fullest potential as China develops.
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