Bridging Gaps - and now, the published article

Over the past two week we've devoted a couple of posts to the webinar

How can the internet be used to bridge gaps between populations?

We've linked to a YouTube video about the course, and we've also posted a review of the webinar itself. And now, with the publication of the latest issue (Vol 10, No. 2) of

The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

a special edition devoted to education in the Middle East, we can also link to an article by the presenters at the webinar, Elaine Hoter, Miri Shonfeld and Aasma Ganayim. Their article is titled:

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Service of Multiculturalism

It presents the online inter-group contact hypothesis (OICH) model that served as the basis for their online course, describes the aims of the Center for Multiculturalism and Technology, and evaluates the course itself. Extensive references are also included, making this an important contribution to an examination of ICT and Multiculturalism.

We might add that this issue of the journal contains numerous articles that should be of interest to readers of this blog.