This study employed Kolb’s experiential learning cycle to investigate whether experiential learning could gain effective results via cross-cultural management theories in teaching and learning. Data from experts was collected to design a teaching program, which was then implemented with the Intercultural Senility Scale to compare between the experimental and control groups using a quasi-experiment research design. Finally, using a focus group discussion, the experts’ opinions were collected for an effective guideline development. The results revealed in the proposed teaching program that elements of the experiential learning such as curricular, teaching environments, and teaching pedagogies should be taken into account by educational stakeholders. The implementation of the teaching program found to have made a positive effect and suggested that a recommended guideline for various stakeholders should make full use of formal, non-formal, and informal learning. Formal education is effective in conceptualizing abstract values and assumptions for explicit culture, while non-formal and informal education are effective in gaining experiences for implicit culture, which then becomes a base for forming abstract values and assumptions.
The simplicity of the hypertext model behind the World Wide Web is a factor in its success, but this simplicity brings limitations. One of these limitations is embedding links in documents. Open Hypermedia addresses this by instead storing them in separate link databases. Meanwhile, the Adaptive Hypermedia approach seeks to enhance a user's experience by inserting personalised additional content and links on the web page. However, these techniques do not offer the user any control over the adaptation. In this paper, we propose the concept of a multi-dimensional linkbase for adaptive links presentation. Links are created and stored in a single, multi-dimensional, linkbase that provides presentation links based on the user's preferences and profile. We present a web-based system (IPNS) that implements this multi-dimensional concept for controlling its personalisation of hyperlinks. We give the results of our evaluation, which confirm that user-controlled adaptation is a satisfactory approach to providing users with control over personalization, and can alleviate the link overload problem.
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