Deciding on the topic of my scholarly essay is a bit of a quandary for me. We have to choose a topic that corresponds with one of the weekly topics or themes and write a scholarly paper of about 3000 words exploring media and technology in education. We have to take a position (state a thesis or argument) and provide evidence, through examples and narrative, to support the position. I am personally interested in how the culture affects the e –learning, particularly to the people in developing country who have different background from the western society where e-learning was originated. I hesitated to write about this at first and pondered if any of my classmates would be interested in my topic because the issue is a bit specific to Thai learners and e-learning. However, I have pointed my paper toward e -learning in higher education institutions in Thailand and hopefully this will urge Thai people to see how their learning styles can either enhance or hinder e-learning. The purpose of this writing is to emphasize the cultural backgrounds that influence the styles of Thai learning and analyze how those learning styles promote or hinder e-learning. I used the principles of Connectivism Theory and Prensky (2009) learning skills that are essential to twenty first century learners as a guideline. The focus of my paper is the issue, not the solution to the problem.
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