World Wide Work, Filtering of Online Content in a Globalized World (Heftet (myke permer))

The amount of information that is online and potentially relevant to learners is enormous. Finding, selecting and judging relevant online content are important competencies in a world where lifelong learning is becoming a must. In practice, online content is the subject of economic, cultural and language filtering, arising from design features such as browsers, commercial search engines, portals, and intellectual property protected software. Local knowledge becomes more vulnerable and less easy to find on the web. Filtering of online content may affect the mind-map of e-learners and diminish the independence of their opinions in school, university or the industrial workplace. This book highlights the economic, cultural and language filtering of online content.

Introduction; Societal Context; Economic Filters; Cultural Filters; Language Filters; Educational Portals; Intellectual Property Rights, Internet and the Freedom of Knowledge; Language Filtering; Information Literacy and the Workplace; Multilingualism in the Digital World: Can This Utopia Become Reality?; Preventing Social Exclusion of E-Learners with Disabilities; E-Learning and Minority Groups: the Sami Case in Scandinavia; Filtering of Scientific e-Content; Cultural Filtering in the Arab World and China: Exploring the Interrelationship of the Technological Knowledge Age, Traditional Cultural Networking and Interpersonal Connections; E-Learning: How Can We Achieve an Effective and Qualitative Learning Experience?; The Virtual Knowledge Studio and e-Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences -- A Case of Instrumental Filtering; Good Practice of Estonia: The School as a Learning Environment and Information Provider; Model Filtering -- How to Prevent Black-Boxing of Discourses About Learning and Teaching; Future Perspective; Economic Filters: Architecture of the Web; Cultural Filters; Towards Digital Competencies; Language Filters; Final Remarks.