摘要：Although changes have taken place, today’s classrooms are still too closed and homogenous to provide students with a global perspective. Distance learning technologies afford one way in which educators can offer students the opportunity to engage in multiregional, multinational, and multicultural collaboration on a global scale. This potential addresses Robert Selman’s contention that educators need to devise ways for students to progress beyond their egocentric views of the world (as cited in Sugar and Bonk, 1995). Reil adds that electronic communities will provide students with a more global education and enable them to view complex issues with a more global perspective (as cited in Sugar and Bonk, 1995). The advantage of distance learning technologies, whether they be interactive television (ITV) or computer mediated communication (CMC), is that they enable students to create shared meanings around roles, ideas, objects, and perspectives
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