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Promoting Intercultural Activities Through Online Environments

The global development of e-learning often ignores the issues of cultural differences and student's attitudes towards e-learning and interculturalism. Hence one of the aims of this collaborative research was to look into student's attitudes concerning the usage of the Internet, online learning environments and social networks like facebook, twitter, blogs in order to facilitate intercultural dialogue and learning. Another important goal was to detect their beliefs about interculturality and intercultural competences. The target group of the research are undergraduate students from Ukraine (Department of Psychology and Cultural sciences) and Croatia (Faculty of Teacher Education). We have found out that majority of Croatian and Ukrainian students regularly use means of online communications, especially electronic mail, facebook and vkontakte but their awareness of performing intercultural activities through these means is not in compliance with the usage of the means of online communication. Furthermore, the components of online learning environments that learners recognize as helpful in the promoting intercultural activities are more of technology kind while components of online learning environments that learners identify as challenging and as possible barriers for successful communication are mostly of subjective or personal type.

online environments; e-learning; online communication; attitudes; intercultural education; promoting

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