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OverviewThe cultural diversity of university students plays a significant role to raise awareness of numerous aspects of the global society, such as culture, language, teamwork, collaboration, and tradition, essential characteristics in universities, the future workplace, and life in general. Technology promotes these concepts by enhancing interaction, collaboration, and cooperation nationally and internationally. Multicultural Awareness and Technology in Higher Education: Global Perspectives encompasses information on the effects of international students’ exchanges in higher education through e-learning technologies. Providing the latest teaching and learning methods, technologies, and approaches in the higher education sector worldwide, this publication is a useful reference for academics, public and private universities, information society developers and researchers, and education managers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tomayess Issa , Pedro Isaias , Piet KommersPublisher: Idea Group,U.S. Imprint: Idea Group,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 1.346kg ISBN: 9781466658769ISBN 10: 1466658762 Pages: 322 Publication Date: 28 February 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTomayess Issa is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Information Systems at Curtin University, Australia. She joined the School of Information Systems - Curtin University in 2001. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Information Systems, Curtin University in 2008. Her PhD research was mainly about Web development and Human Factors. Tomayess has vast experience in Australian tertiary education, teaching in Information Systems area. Tomayess published several journal and conference papers in her research interest, and she is a member of an international conference programme committee. Currently, she conducts research locally and globally in information systems, Usability and Human-Computer Interaction, Social Network (including web 2.0 and web 3.0), Sustainability and Green IT, Cloud Computing, Networking and Operating systems. Pedro Isaías is a Professor at the Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) in Lisbon, Portugal, responsible for several courses and director of the master degree programme in Electronic Commerce and Internet since its start in 2003. He holds a PhD in Information Management (in the speciality of information and decision systems) from the New University of Lisbon. Author of several books, book chapters, papers and research reports, all in the information systems area, he has headed several conferences and workshops within the mentioned area. He has also been responsible for the scientific coordination of several EU funded research projects. He is also member of the editorial board of several journals and programme committee member of several conferences and workshops. At the moment he conducts research activity related to Information Systems in general, E-Learning, E-Commerce and WWW related areas. Piet Kommers is associate professor at the University of Twente, The Netherlands and adjunct professor at Curtin University, Australia. His current interest is in media for communication and education. He received the title of honorary professor by UNESCO for his results in educational technology in web-based learning. He was chair of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Cognitive Technologies. “Web-based Communities” and “Social Media” were the main focus of the journal IJWBC and subsequent IADIS yearly conferences. Piet Kommers is member of advisory boards in Singapore, Finland, Russia and the EU Commission at Brussels. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |