The Design and Idea of Cross-cultural Distance Collaborative Learning and Its Enlightenment

Abstract

Through the Internet, collaborative learning gradually across different countries or regions and presents development of Cross-cultural distance collaboration. The excellent distance collaborative learning project has been more and more into the characteristics of globalization. This paper first summarizes overview of current research in cross-cultural distance collaborative learning at home and abroad. Then, the thesis takes the famous global school network (GSN) project as an example, analysis deeply the classic projects of cross-cultural distance collaborative learning (International CyberFair and Doors to Diplomacy ) , summarizes the project general situation, project features and design strategy of the cross-cultural distance collaborative learning, thus revealing the value and enlightenment of cross-culture collaborative learning on the digital development of school-based curriculum, Project-based difference learning and other educational applications. In the end, the thesis suggests carrying out cross cultural distance collaborative learning to improving the ability of teachers and students using of English in international cooperation.