Developing Social Capital in a Cross-Cultural E-Learning Environment

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Author(s): Youmei Liu (University of Houston, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 14
Source title: E-Learning as a Socio-Cultural System: A Multidimensional Analysis
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania), Edita Butrimė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania), Daiva Vitkutė-Adžgauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania), Vladislav Vladimirovich Fomin (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)and Kathy Kikis-Papadakis (Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6154-7.ch016

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Web-Based Teaching & Learning

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With fast development of internet technology and social media tools, e-learning is expanding drastically. E-learning builds a unique global learning community that brings in students from all over the world, which creates an optimum opportunity for students to learn from each other, work collaboratively, establish shared norms and values, and build mutual trust and respectful relationships. The four major components of social capital as delineated by Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998) are trust, norms, obligations, and identification, and its core value is about building trustworthy and respectful relationships among people. From this perspective, e-learning has raised the mission of education to a higher level – promoting the development of social capital. This chapter focuses on two sub topics: 1) building a global e-learning community to develop social capital and 2) creating purposeful and meaningful teaching and learning activities to build trustful and collaborative relationships among students.

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