Our growing global society is facing a long list of societal gaps. Inequality, illiteracy, exploitation of some for the benefit of others, cultural intolerance, wars and terrorism – just to mention a few. As global citizens we are facing, in different areas, serious inter-cultural and political challenges in the striving for democracy (Gibson, 2006), and the arena of international education enabled through ICT is no exception (Sorensen & Ó Murchú, 2005). Society at large, in the striving for a better world has great expectations for the qualitative potential of implementing ICT in education (Brown & Davis, 2004; Collis & Moonen, 2001; Gibson, 2004; Mason, 1998; Miyake & Koschmann, 2002; Ninnes & Hellstén, 2005). Educators and educational designers may utilise technology and its unique potential for change to promote global democratic negotiation processes among learners through inter-cultural dialogue and across national borders, power structures and hierarchies and hence build bridges across some of the gaps of our growing global community (Sorensen, 2004a).
Political decisions have serious impacts on how ICT is implemented in society. But working for democracy through education in a global perspective is a challenge for the ICT visionaries and politicians worldwide. Such challenges are often born and bred in the educational arena. As a result, the visions of the actors within the arena of education - instructional designers, teachers and learners – inform political decisions, and may indirectly end up defining the ‘conceptual space’ which they leave for ‘how’ ICT gets implemented and utilised in educational processes (Takle et al., 2001). In particular, e-learning networks may be constructed and pedagogically designed in ways which indirectly promote the advancement of non-authoritarian democratic processes and student activity as a result of their underlying theoretical philosophy and pedagogical methodology of designing, teaching and scaffolding.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bateson, G., 1976, Steps to an Ecology of Mind. The University of Chicago Press Chicago: Chicago
Brown, A. and Davis, N., 2004, Introduction, in A. Brown and N. Davis eds., Digital Technology Communities and Education. Routledge Farmer: London, pp. 1–12
Colaizzi, P.F., 1978, Learning and existence. R. Valle and M. King eds., Existential-Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology, Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 119–135
Collis, B., and Moonen, J., 2001, second printing, 2002, Flexible Learning in a Digital World: Experiences and Expectations. Kogan Page: London
Conner, M., 2004, Global implications of eLearning. In LineZine.com. (February 8, 2006),http:// www.linezine.com/7.2/articles/mcgie.htm. http:// www.linezine.com/7.2/articles/mcgie.htm
Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L., Sorensen, E.K., Ryberg, T. and Buus, L., 2004, A theoretical framework for designing online master communities of practice, Proceedings of the Fourth International Networked Learning Conference, held April 5–7, at Lancaster University, UK, pp. 267–273
Dunn, P. and Marinetti, A., 2004, Cultural Adaptation: Necessity for Global eLearning, LineZine. com. (February 8, 2006) http://www.linezine.com/7.2/articles/pdamca.htm.
Fibiger, B., Nielsen, J., Riis, M., Sorensen, E.K., Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L., Danielsen, O., Sørensen, B.H., 2004, Master in ICT and Learning — Project Pedagogy and Collaboration in Virtual e-Learning, in Dan Remeney ed., 3rd European Conference on E-Learning. Paris. November 2004. Reading; http://www.imv.au.dk/medarbejdere/bfib/publ.
Gibson, I. W., 2004, Preparing School Leaders for New-Millennium Global Learning, GlobalEducator. com; (February 8, 2006) http://www.globaled.com/articles/IanGibson2004.pdf.
Gibson, I. W., 2005, The Future Ain't what it used to be!! Graduation speech, Aalborg University, Denmark June 17, 2005
Gibson, I. W., 2006, Enhanced learning and leading in a technology rich, global learning environment: The global forum series for school leaders, in E. K. Sorensen and D. Ó Murchú eds., Enhancing Learning Through Technology. Idea Group: Hershey, PA, pp. 75–102
Holzl, A., 1999, Designing for diversity within online learning environments. Presented at QUT, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia for the annual Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Conference, December 5–8, 1999; (Sept 15, 2007) http://www. ascilite.org.au/conferences/brisbane99/papers/papers.htm. http://www. ascilite.org.au/conferences/brisbane99/papers/papers.htm
Johnson, M., 1987, The Body in the Mind. The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago
Lave, J. and Wenger, E., 1991, Situated Learning. Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
Mason, R., 1998, Globalising Education. Trends and Applications. Routledge: London
Miyake, N. and Koschmann, T. D., 2002, Realisations of CSCL conversations: Technology transfer and the CSILE project, in T. Koschmann, R. Hall and N. Miyake eds., CSCL 2: Carrying Forward the Conversation. Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ
Ninnes, P. and Hellstén, M., 2005, Internationalizing Higher Education: Critical Explorations of Pedagogy and Policy. CERC Studies in Comparative Education 16. Springer: Dordrecht
Ó Murchú, D. and Sorensen, E.K., 2004, Online master communities of practice: Collaborative learning in an intercultural perspective. European Journal of Open and Distance Learning, Vol. 2004/I. (Sept 15, 2007) http://www.eurodl.org/. http://www.eurodl.org/
Pincas, A., 2003, Changing provision of global online learning. Global Educator (February 8, 2006) http://www.globaled.com/articles/PincasAnita2003.pdf.
Scardamalia, M. and Bereiter, C., 1996, Computer support for knowledge building communities, in T. D. Koschmann, R. Hall and N. Miyake eds., CSCL Theory and Practice of an Emerging Paradigm, Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ, pp. 249–268
Schmidt, L. H., 2000, Collaborative Creativity. Interview, Radio Denmark (DR-P1, March 2000)
Schön, D.A., 1987, Educating the Reflective Practitioner. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco
Sorensen, E. K., 2003, Designing for online dialogue and discussion in collaborative knowledge building networks (SOFF report No. 1). Tromsoe, Norway: SOFF — Centralorganet for fleksi-bel laering i Hoegre utdanning, pp. 21–34
Sorensen, E. K., 2004a, Reflection and intellectual amplification in online communities of collaborative learning, in T. S. Roberts ed., Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice, Information Science: Hershey, PA, pp. 242–261)
Sorensen, E.K., 2004b, Developing E-Learning Communities for a Democratic World: Building Bridges Through Dialogue and Shared Knowledge Construction. Keynote paper for the EDEN Third Research Workshop and Conference in Oldenburg, March 5, 2004
Sorensen, E.K. and Ó Murchú, D., 2004, Designing online learning communities of practice: A democratic perspective. Journal of Educational Multimedia 29(3):189–200
Sorensen E.K. and Ó Murchú, D., 2005, Developing the architecture of online learning communities: Designing the walls of the learning space. Proceedings of the 11th Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning: The Future of Open and Distance Learning, held Sept. 20–23, 2005 at Madingly Hall, Cambridge
Sorensen, E. K. and Ó Murchú, D., 2006, Identifying an appropriate, pedagogical, networked architecture for online learning communities within higher and continuing education, in E. K. Sorensen and D. Ó Murchú eds., Enhancing Learning Through Technology. Idea Group: Hershey, PA, pp. 226–251
Sorensen, E. K. and Takle, E. S., 2002, Collaborative knowledge building in web-based learning: Assessing the quality of dialogue. The International Journal on E-Learning. 1(1): 28–32
Sorensen, E.K. and Takle, E.S., 2005, Investigating knowledge building dialogues in networked communities of practice. A collaborative learning endeavor across cultures. Interactive Educational Multimedia, 10: 50–60; (Sept 15, 2007), http://www.ub.edu/multimedia/iem
Sorensen, E.K. and Takle, G.S., 2004, A cross-cultural cadence in E: knowledge building with networked communities across disciplines and cultures, in A. Brown and N. Davis, Digital Technology Communities and Education. Routledge Farmer: London, pp. 251–263
Takle, E. S., Sorensen, E. K., Taber, M. R., Fils, D., 2001, Virtual portfolios: Lessons learned from 4 years of implementation. The Proceedings of The Seventh IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education (WCCE 2001): Networking the Learner. Kluwer: Boston, pp. 135–142
Tolle, E., 1999, The Power of the Now. Hodder&Stoughton: London
Wegerif, R., 2006a, Dialogic, Educational and Technology: Convergence in the Space of Learning. Springer-Verlag: New York
Wegerif, R., 2006b, Towards a dialogic understanding of the relationship between teaching thinking and CSCL. International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 1(1): 143–157
Wenger, E., 1998, Communities of Practice. Learning, Meaning and Identity. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
Wilson, B.G., 1997, Reflections on constructivism and instructional design, in C. R. Dills and A. A. Romiszowski eds., Instructional Development Paradigms (np.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications; (March 16, 2005) http://carbon.cudenver.edu/?bwilson/ construct.html
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer Science + Business Media B.V
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Sorensen, E.K. (2008). Design of Dialogic Quality in e-Learning. In: Hellstén, M., Reid, A. (eds) Researching International Pedagogies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8858-2_17
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8858-2_17
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-1-4020-8857-5
Online ISBN: 978-1-4020-8858-2
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawEducation (R0)