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Cultural Diversity
Culture
Culture is not neatly defined in the minds of social scientists. Instead of a term with a consistent definition across different disciplines, it is a construct that has variations in meaning depending on the branch of social science from which the definition is offered. Two definitions are provided here.
Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional (i.e., historically derived and selected) ideas and especially their attached values; cultural systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other as conditioning influences upon further action. (Kluckhohn, 1962: 73)
Culture consists of shared elements…that ...
- Administrative Processes
- Academic Calendar
- Administrative Leadership
- Administrative Planning and Support of Information Technology
- Admission Criteria and Processes
- Career Planning and Development
- Course Credit/Credit Transfer
- Enrollment Status
- Knowledge Management
- Library Services
- Markets/Marketing
- Online Orientation and Navigation Tools
- Operations and Management
- Orientation
- Outsourcing
- Program Evaluation
- Staffing
- Telecommuting/Teleworking
- Transcripts
- Policy, Finance, and Governance
- Social and Cultural Perspectives
- Adult Education Learning Model
- Cognitive Skills/Cognitive Development
- Corporate Training
- Cultural Access/Digital Divide
- Cultural Diversity
- Demographics
- Gender
- Globalization
- Intranet
- Knowledge Building/Knowledge Work
- Knowledge Economy
- Learning Communities
- Netiquette
- Online Universities
- Relationships
- Social Constructionism
- Social Issues
- Sociocultural Perspectives
- Sociotechnical Issues
- Virtual Communities
- World Wide Web
- Student and Faculty Issues
- Teaching and Learning Processes and Technologies
- Alternative Secondary Education
- Assessment of Prior Learning
- Assessment of Student Competence
- Café
- Case Studies
- Clinical Training
- Collaboration
- Continuing Education
- Correspondence Courses
- Critical Dialogues
- Curriculum Models
- Designing Learning Environments
- Distributed Learning/Distributed Education
- E-Learning Strategies
- Experiential Learning
- Facilitation
- Feedback
- Graduate Study
- Group Process
- Group Size
- Home Schooling
- Informatics
- Information Literacy
- Instructional Course Design
- Instructional Techniques
- Internet
- Learning Circles
- Learning Environments
- Learning Platforms
- Literature Searching
- Lurking
- MBA Online
- Medical Education
- Metacommunication
- Norms
- Online Learning
- Online Learning Environments
- Outcomes
- Pedagogy/Andragogy
- Public Television
- Residence Halls
- Scholar Practitioner Model
- Self-Directed Learning
- Skill Development
- Study Guides
- Teaching in an Electronic Classroom
- Team Teaching
- Telecourses
- Telehealth and Telemedicine
- Time Management
- Transformational Learning
- Virtual Classroom
- Work-Based Distributed Learning
- Technical Tools and Supports
- Adaptive Technology
- Asynchronous Formats
- Authoring Tools
- Browser
- Computer
- Computer Literacy
- Computer-Based Training (CBT)
- Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
- Connectivity
- Cyberspace
- Delivery Systems
- Desktop Publishing
- Document Management Systems
- Domain Name
- Electronic Journals and Publications
- ERIC: The Education Resource Information Center
- Evolving Technologies
- Graphics
- Groupware
- Hypermedia
- Hypertext
- Information Retrieval
- Information Systems
- Information Technology (IT)
- Interactive Textbook
- Internet Service Provider
- IT Security
- Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Learning Objects
- Learning Technology Standards
- Library Technologies
- Media
- Networks
- Programming and Scripting Languages
- Simulations
- Site Licenses
- Streaming Media
- Synchronous Formats
- Telephone Teaching
- Textual Computing
- Virtual Campus
- Virtual Learning Tools
- Viruses
- Voice Activation Programs
- Web Portals
- Web Sites
- Web-Based Course Management Systems (WBCMS)
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