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Thursday, April 11, 2002
http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/MAR02_Issue/article03.html Web-based Learning Design: Planning for Diversity Patricia McGee Editor's Note: This paper distills research on distance learning for students from a variety of cultures, age groups, learning styles, and backgrounds. It recognizes the role of assessment, instructional design, and interactivity to provide learning environments that support success. "Cultural orientations for heterogenous populations may be evidenced by conflicts in values, interpersonal interactions, communication patterns, time orientation and scheduling, rules of activity and engagement, cognitive processes, and processes of problem solving . . . Consideration of learner orientations can inform the designer of unique approaches to learning that may better support multiple cultures and facilitate successful completion of a course. The findings apply to learning in the workplace and to academic learning....
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