Analysis of Emerging Practices in Globalizing Instructional Materials
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Since the end of the Cold War, international decisions and forces have fostered a free market economy and facilitated expansion for corporations into new markets (Marquardt, 1995). In addition, new technologies, especially the Internet, allow anyone with access to those available technologies to have a global Web presence and communicate simultaneously. Merely placing a Web page on the Internet could be deemed as having “gone global,” because anyone in the world can access it through the Internet. These factors, and others, have brought human societies throughout the world closer together in time and space and have fostered globalization.
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