Building the Tower of Babel : Converting

Dealing with Cultural Differences in a 3d Virtual Classroom: a Case Study of Collaboratively Constructing a Virtual Tower of Babel

The collaboration project described in this paper involved students across three cooperating institutions, on three different continents in different time zones, building a virtual Tower of Babel in a 3D Collaborative Virtual Environment (3D CVE). Much Information and Communication Technology work today involves international collaboration. This requires cross-cultural understandings with one’s...

Diversity and Culture in Knowledge Creation:The Story of the Tower of Babel Revisited

Thank you very much for kind introduction. Ni men hao. An-nyeong ha-shim-ni-kka. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I am very honored and pleased with this great opportunity to speak at this 17th conference of Association for Cultural Economics International in Kyoto today. It is my understanding that this is the fi rst ACEI conference in Asia. My presentation is entitled Diversity and Culture ...

Building a Tower of Babel in health care? Theory & practice of community-based integrated care

Many hold that performance in health care can be improved. However, the state-of-the-art on health care improvement indicates that improvement activities and strategies have too limited success so far. From a ‘systems perspective’, this limited success stems from a lack of coherence among the various strategies and instruments employed. For example, practice guidelines, client councils, regulat...

Are We Moving Toward an Information SuperHighway or a Tower of Babel? The Challenge of Large-Scale Semantic Heterogeneity

Tower of Babel: Facilitating Multi-cultural Educational Activities and Group Work with 3d Collaborative Virtual Environments

The project described in this paper focuses on the use of distributed virtual media-rich environments in an educational multi-cultural context. It revolves around the construction of a virtual Tower of Babel in a 3D Collaborative Virtual Environment (3D CVE), involving students across cooperating institutions from Finland and Taiwan, on two different continents in different time zones. This pro...