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E-learning enables provision of higher education services beyond national boundaries. International trade in educational services is expected to be liberalized as the General Agreements in Trades in Services (GATS) negotiations will seek to promote ...

Distance learning has been around in Japan for the past 50 years at least, mostly as the form of correspondence schools. With the wide spread use of the information and communication technologies (ICT), not only distance education institutions but...

This paper will discuss the use of Facebook for intercultural learning in a telecollaborative project linking classes in Japan and classes overseas. There is a good amount of literature already existing in the field of online intercultural exchange...

Various Internet tools such as emails and discussion boards, and more recently those Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook, Skype, Slideshare, YouTube, and Flicker, make it possible to connect learners across languages and cultures in and outside...

Various Internet tools such as emails and discussion boards, and more recently those Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook, Skype, Slideshare, YouTube, and Flicker, make it possible to connect learners across languages and cultures in and outside...

According to O’Dowd (2007), the first collaborative learning with distant partners dates back in the 1920s when French educationalist Celestin Freinet had his students publish a newspaper and exchange it with classes in other parts of the country....

Web 2.0 tools and social networking approaches give unique opportunities for students across national borders to communicate and collaborate. They are especially suitable for fostering foreign language learning and intercultural understanding as...

The use of document cameras and computers by the teachers at a certain elementary school was investigated to determine which teachers were asked for information and proposals and the nature of these requests. At this elementary school, teachers use...