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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Nice article that looks at some of the early failures of e-learning and attributes them to the ways different cultures approach knowledge and learning. "It makes perfect sense that a culture, like the US, that is highly individualistic, has a short-term orientation and relatively masculine views of gender roles (from Hofstede’s data) should embrace behaviourism so completely, and be so reluctant to let it go. Take Sweden as a contrast: more collective than the US and with very low masculinity scores, it would make little sense to adopt behaviourist approaches to learning."

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