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Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia pp 151–163Cite as

Applications of Digital Technologies in Liberal Arts Institutions in East Asia

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Such is the ubiquity of digital technologies , their effects on society and their use in virtually every aspect of everyone’s lives and education, that most liberal arts institutions are responding accordingly (Ferrall 2011). This chapter examines the extent to which, and the ways in which, liberal arts institutions are embracing digital technologies in pursuance of the key values of liberal arts education, with particular reference to the East Asian liberal arts education.

The original version of this chapter was revised: The second author’s name was added. The erratum to this chapter is available at DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0513-8_16

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0513-8_16

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://blendedlearning.blogs.brynmawr.edu/projects/nglc-study/courses-developed/.

  2. 2.

    http://research.pomona.edu/lacol/.

  3. 3.

    http://research.pomona.edu/lacol/liberal-arts-online-learning/.

  4. 4.

    http://www.jocw.jp/.

  5. 5.

    https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/facts/mission.

  6. 6.

    http://www.internetworldstats.com/.

  7. 7.

    http://www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2014/emr-november2014-regional-appendices-rnea.pdf.

  8. 8.

    http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/13/china-now-has-700m-active-smartphone-users-says-umeng/.

  9. 9.

    http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/06/20/125616.

  10. 10.

    http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2014/12/12/smartphone-usage-overtakes-pcs-in-south-korea/.

  11. 11.

    Connectivity was measured by quality and extent of infrastructure rollout and upgrade; broadband connectivity; mobile phone usage; and PC penetration.

  12. 12.

    Capability was measured by ability to deliver and use e-learning; literacy and ICT literacy levels; strengths of the educational and training institutions; commitment to expanding education, training and lifelong learning.

  13. 13.

    Content was measured by quality of online learning materials and their pervasiveness in education and training.

  14. 14.

    Culture: Desire to leverage technology to achieve ambitious and long-sighted educational values, goals and behaviours; recognition and reward for teaching; acceptance of non-traditional certificate and degree programs; encouragement of an e-learning industry and private ventures; acceptance of progressive ideas within the populace.

  15. 15.

    http://www.ida.gov.sg/Infocomm-Landscape/iN2015-Masterplan.

  16. 16.

    http://elnpweb.ncu.edu.tw/old/english/english1.htm.

  17. 17.

    http://www.tufs.ac.jp/common/pg/pcs/globalcampus/.

  18. 18.

    http://insights.thinkdigital.travel/digital-trends/social-networking-and-ugc/social-networking/regional-overview/asia-pacific/.

  19. 19.

    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources.

  20. 20.

    https://wiki.creativecommons.org/China_Open_Resources_for_Education_(CORE).

  21. 21.

    http://www.myoops.org/en/.

  22. 22.

    http://www.nile.or.kr/contents/contents.jsp?bkind=html&bcode=HACAAAA&bmode=view.

  23. 23.

    http://english.keris.or.kr/es_ak/es_ak_100.jsp.

  24. 24.

    http://www.nile.or.kr/eng/contents/contents.jsp?bkind=html&bcode=CAHAAB&bmode=view&idx=CAHAAB&langmode=eng.

  25. 25.

    http://www.jocw.jp.

  26. 26.

    http://www.jmooc.jp/en/.

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Jung, I., Bajracharya, J. (2016). Applications of Digital Technologies in Liberal Arts Institutions in East Asia. In: Jung, I., Nishimura, M., Sasao, T. (eds) Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia. Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0513-8_13

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