How Millennials Can Promote Social Harmony through Intercultural Communication at Higher Education

How Can Hybrid Courses Designed with Socio-Constructivist Design- Principles Promote Learning in Higher Education?

This research explores the learning that took place in three hybrid university-level courses in education, which were designed according to three main design-principles: (a)engage learners in peer instruction, (b)involve learners in assessment processes, and (c)reuse student artifacts as resource for further learning. These principles were employed in different manners according to the goals, c...

Facilitating Social Harmony Through ICTs

How Gender Conscious Pedagogy in Higher Education Can Stimulate Actions for Social Justice in Society

In order to reflect upon methods that can generate social justice and democratization, this article emphasises practical implementations connected to gender conscious pedagogy. Gender conscious pedagogy aims at overcoming the myth of objectivity by questioning, through teaching, what is considered as “common sense” and “normal”. This endeavour entails acting and reflecting upon such breakthroug...

Opinion Mining, Social Networks, Higher Education

Background and Aim: With the advent of technology and the use of social networks such as Instagram, Facebook, blogs, forums, and many other platforms, interactions of learners with one another and their lecturers have become progressively relaxed. This has led to the accumulation of large quantities of data and information about studentschr('39') attitudes, learning experiences, opinions, and f...

Intercultural Communication

1.1 Terminology Intercultural communication or communication between people of different cultural backgrounds has always been and will probably remain an important precondition of human co-existance on earth. The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework of factors thatare important in intercultural communication within a general model of human, primarily linguistic, communication. The te...