Title :
Chinese and Australian students learning to work together online proposal to expand the New Colombo Plan to the online environment
Author :
Worthington, Tom
Author_Institution :
Res. Sch. of Comput. Sci., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
The Australian Government´s “New Colombo Plan” provides $100m funding for Australian university students to undertake part of their studies at universities in the Indo-Pacific region, to foster greater cultural understanding, technical and business links between Australia and the region. The aims of the origins and aims of the original and new Colombo Plans are compared and the option of to teach Australian and Chinese students together on-line, to meet the plan´s aims are explored.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; cultural aspects; educational institutions; student experiments; Australian students learning; Chinese students learning; Indo-Pacific region; cultural understanding; new Colombo plan; online environment; online proposal; universities; Australia; Computers; Educational institutions; Ethics; HTML; Australia; Body of Knowledge; China; Computer Science; Education;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2014 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2949-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSE.2014.6926448
