Tribes & Cultures – Cross-disciplinary Communication: Pinpointing the Issues for eLearning

Effective communication and co-operation across disciplines is needed to create and deploy eLearning systems so that they contribute to enhanced outcomes for students and teachers. Using a Grounded Theory methodology we probed the cultures of the participating tribes: the Educationalists; the Instru...

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Main Authors: Dreher, Naomi, Dreher, Heinz
Other Authors: Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Format: Conference Paper
Published: University of Maribor 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41653
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description Effective communication and co-operation across disciplines is needed to create and deploy eLearning systems so that they contribute to enhanced outcomes for students and teachers. Using a Grounded Theory methodology we probed the cultures of the participating tribes: the Educationalists; the Instructional Designers; and the Information Technology Specialists. Six salient themes emerged from the semi-structured interview data of respondents selected from the three tribes, each of which is described in detail in this article. These themes give rise to Six Rules of Thumb to help promote fruitful communication and interaction among the tribes and cultures of eLearning system stakeholders, and thus result in improved eLearning systems.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-416532023-01-27T05:52:11Z Tribes & Cultures – Cross-disciplinary Communication: Pinpointing the Issues for eLearning Dreher, Naomi Dreher, Heinz Nilmini Wickramasinghe Ulrike Lechner Adreja Pucihar Joze Gricar Marusa Babnik Instructional Designers Educationalists Information Technology Specialists Tribes and Cultures Cross-disciplinary Communication eLearning Effective communication and co-operation across disciplines is needed to create and deploy eLearning systems so that they contribute to enhanced outcomes for students and teachers. Using a Grounded Theory methodology we probed the cultures of the participating tribes: the Educationalists; the Instructional Designers; and the Information Technology Specialists. Six salient themes emerged from the semi-structured interview data of respondents selected from the three tribes, each of which is described in detail in this article. These themes give rise to Six Rules of Thumb to help promote fruitful communication and interaction among the tribes and cultures of eLearning system stakeholders, and thus result in improved eLearning systems. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41653 University of Maribor fulltext
spellingShingle Instructional Designers
Educationalists
Information Technology Specialists
Tribes and Cultures
Cross-disciplinary Communication
eLearning
Dreher, Naomi
Dreher, Heinz
Tribes & Cultures – Cross-disciplinary Communication: Pinpointing the Issues for eLearning
title Tribes & Cultures – Cross-disciplinary Communication: Pinpointing the Issues for eLearning
title_full Tribes & Cultures – Cross-disciplinary Communication: Pinpointing the Issues for eLearning
title_fullStr Tribes & Cultures – Cross-disciplinary Communication: Pinpointing the Issues for eLearning
title_full_unstemmed Tribes & Cultures – Cross-disciplinary Communication: Pinpointing the Issues for eLearning
title_short Tribes & Cultures – Cross-disciplinary Communication: Pinpointing the Issues for eLearning
title_sort tribes & cultures – cross-disciplinary communication: pinpointing the issues for elearning
topic Instructional Designers
Educationalists
Information Technology Specialists
Tribes and Cultures
Cross-disciplinary Communication
eLearning
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41653