Culture and Online Learning: Global Perspectives and Research

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Insung Jung is Professor and Chair of Education Media and Society at the International Christian University in Tokyo. Before joining ICU in 2003 she served as the Director of the Multimedia Education/E-Learning Center at the Ewha Womens University in Seoul for three years. The Center was established to develop deliver and manage e-learning programs for the University and involved in establishing numerous collaborative relationships with national regional and international institutions to develop and deliver web-based distance education programs to professional women in the region and throughout the world. Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena is Regents Professor of Distance Education and Instructional Technology in the Organizational Learning and Instructional Technology Program at the University of New Mexico. For over twenty years she has published widely and presented on distance education eLearning and Instructional Technology. She currently researches the social construction of knowledge in online learning communities the socio-cultural context of online learning social presence theory and cross-cultural e-mentoring. She has served as Principal Investigator and Project Director for U.S. federal research and evaluation grants and was a Fulbright senior researcher in Morocco and Sri Lanka. She has consulted for World Bank and Asian Development Bank distance education projects and the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka to train online teachers and instructional designers for its National Online Distance Education Service.