dc.contributor.author	Abdull Kareem, Omar	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Boucouvalas, Marcie	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Giles, Inez	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Morris, Linda E.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Carlton, Patrick W.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Fortune, Jimmie C.	en
dc.contributor.department	Human Development	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T20:13:26Z	en
dc.date.adate	2000-06-26	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T20:13:26Z	en
dc.date.issued	2000-05-10	en
dc.date.rdate	2001-06-26	en
dc.date.sdate	2000-06-22	en
dc.description.abstract	Collaboration between institutions in distance learning has been practiced for decades at first domestically and now expanding to an international level. Many higher education institutions are also trying to globalize their learning environments through the internationalization process, especially through the curriculum. A review of the extant literature, however, revealed that collaboration efforts are characterized more by infusion of content from one country to another. Collaboration between two different countries, however, is much more meaningful if both parties are equally involved in co-designing, sharing, and implementing such learning experiences. Such a two-way collaboration process is a missing gap in the literature, which the present study has addressed. This study examined the process of developing a two-way collaborative learning experience between one of the universities in the United States of America and a university in a developing Asian country. The global question that guided this research was: What is involved in the process of developing and designing on-line learning between two different countries; and What are the challenges faced during the process? The research design was a qualitative case study of a process, based on Miles and Huberman's (1994) classification. A micro monitoring process, complemented by interviews with key individuals, was conducted to collect the data. Different sources of data (Yin, 1984) or triangulation (Krathwohl, 1997) was a strategy used to increase the validity of the study. Through the micro monitoring process, all documents such as e-mails, meeting notes, and personal notes were collected and analyzed. Categorization and coding procedures followed Coffey and Artkinson (1996): that is, coding as a "mixture of data reduction and data complication." All the data (from interviews and the micro monitoring process) were reported, analyzed, and interpreted from two different but complementary voices: the voice of reporter and the voice of analyst. The voice of reporter revealed a chronology of events and description whereas the analyst interpreted the meaning of the reporter's descriptive portion. Analysis revealed three major phases that evolved in the process of collaboration: initiation, pre-development, and development. Each phase consisted of several specific activities. The major challenges faced during the process evolved around technical matters. Cultural differences, technical expertise, institutional procedures, financial, and time differences were also a challenge to the process. This study besides confirming some practices also broadened and deepened the concept of collaboration and internationalizing the curriculum. Moreover, this study was able to recommend the follow up development of a process framework for developing and co-designing a collaborative on-line learning experience that involves two different countries.	en
dc.description.degree	Ph. D.	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-06222000-15510008	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06222000-15510008/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28096	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	refs.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	chap45.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	abstract.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	appendix.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	chap123.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	coverpage.pdf	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Collaboration	en
dc.subject	cross-cultural learning	en
dc.subject	internationalization	en
dc.subject	internationalizing the curriculum	en
dc.subject	Education, Higher	en
dc.subject	on-line learning	en
dc.title	Collaboration in Developing On-Line Learning Between Two Different Countries: a Case Study	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Human Development	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Ph. D.	en

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