E-Learning Practice in Higher Education: A Mixed-Method Comparative Analysis

This book investigates e-learning practices at American and Australian institutes of higher learning, their status quo, best-practice examples, and remaining issues. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, it combines three studies – two using quantitative methods and a third using qualitative methods – in order to gauge the status quo of e-learning.

The first study addresses the dominant cultural dimensions, revealing that the main explanation for the results may be the fact that most supplie...