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Expectations - of life, work, education, and so forth - are rooted
in cultural values. As a result, access to an engagement with
online learning is a culture-bound experience.Cases on Cultural
Implications and Considerations in Online Learning illustrates ways
in which to reach and engage learners across cultures by using
online learning that accommodates cultural differences and
preferences. This casebook helps online educators understand what
cultural expectations their students have before they create online
programs and tailor their instructional designs for multicultural
and international learners.
E-learning is a cultural artifact and thus, is embedded with the
cultural preferences, learning styles, and values of the designing
culture, usually western. Yet, the largest and fastest growing
groups of learners are in eastern cultures. Cultural differences
should not create barriers to learning, understanding, skill
development, or the time and effort it takes to acquire them. Cases
on Globalized and Culturally Appropriate E-Learning: Challenges and
Solutions offers a multitude of cases illustrating the different
challenges faced when offering e-learning to learners of other
cultures and, most importantly, how they were resolved. This
cutting-edge publication shares contemporary knowledge on how to
adapt or develop e-learning that promotes equitable learning
outcomes for targeted learners by addressing interdependent
disciplines. It is a must-have reference source for organizations
with an outsourced workforce, global trainers, educators, and
faculty, instructional designers and e-learning developers,
translation and localization experts, international development
agencies, open courseware advocates, and promoters of reusable
learning objects.
Accelerated globalization challenges educators to provide
culturally accessible learning to countries other than their own.
However, to do so, we must investigate the differences that may
affect the achievement of equitable learning outcomes. Translation
is a logical first step. Localization - a process in which symbols,
images, etc. are changed to those recognized by the targeted
learners - is also an effective adaptation. However, in education,
we inadvertently imbed our deeply rooted, culturally diverse values
into our approaches to learning and teaching. In this book, we
explore the existence of cultural dimensions in elearning, a
favored tool for global education. We examine whether such
differences, between learners in the United States and India,
affect learning outcomes and whether learners have different
perceptions of, and preferences for, elearning. Subsequently, we
propose the Cultural Adaptation Process (CAP). The CAP Model
provides a framework with which online instructors and
instructional designers can identify any needs for cultural
adaptation - aligned with course content, media, and instructional
approaches - within the constraints of their resources.
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