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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Barton, Siew Mee – International Journal on E-Learning, 2013
This is a study of the influence of social and cultural factors on the adoption of e-learning in higher education in Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Singapore and Australia. Particular attention in each case was given to factors relating to social capital, attitudes and patterns of behavior in leadership, entrepreneurialism, and teaching and to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Social Capital, Adoption (Ideas), Program Attitudes
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Barton, Siew Mee; Corbitt, Brian; Nguyen, Lemai – International Journal on E-Learning, 2009
This article reports findings from an ethnographic study of e-learning adopters in Turkey and examines ways in which cultural factors shape the adoption and use of information technology for online teaching. This research focuses on influential early adopters in the tertiary education sector in Turkey who have become change agents by inspiring…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment