• DocumentCode
    2870225
  • Title

    Building a Cultural Community Classroom to Connect Instructors with Students

  • Author

    Mohan, Fariel

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. & Commun. Technol., Univ. of Trinidad & Tobago, Point Lisas, Trinidad and Tobago
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    6-8 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    147
  • Lastpage
    149
  • Abstract
    This paper presents an approach for an instructor to create a cultural community among students to motivate everyone to share their skills to build a strong community. The aim of this research is to create a community classroom using the Internet which is comfortable to the students. This community provides students with the opportunity to share their knowledge by allowing them to be anonymous with no time constraints and no place constraints. The result of this experiment shows that for each posting made by the instructor in the cultural community, at least one student had a comment to add. It also showed that 95% of the postings stimulated at least one student´s comment to be made within 10 minutes of the previous student´s comment. This result was common regardless of time or place.
  • Keywords
    Internet; computer aided instruction; online front-ends; Internet; cultural community classroom; motivation; skill sharing; Communities; Cultural differences; Educational institutions; Global communication; Internet; Mathematics; collaboration; cultural community; learning styles; motivating students;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Athens, GA
  • ISSN
    2161-3761
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-209-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2161-3761
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICALT.2011.49
  • Filename
    5992288