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Web-based Learning Design: Planning for Diversity
Web-based Learning Design: Planning for Diversity
2002 summary of research on how diversity affects online learning, focusing especially on Hispanics. Includes differences in communication due to culture, including differences between different Hispanic populations (i.e., Mexico isn't the same as Guatemala). Also notes that Hispanics are often on the wrong side of the digital divide and may have less prior experience with technology, therefore exhibiting fewer characteristics of the net generation.
Imported from Diigo#diversity#FST#instructionaldesign#highered#digitaldivide#netgeneration#communication#elearning
·usdla.org·
Web-based Learning Design: Planning for Diversity
An Inclusive Approach to Online Learning Environments: Models and Resources (PDF)
An Inclusive Approach to Online Learning Environments: Models and Resources (PDF)
22-page article on designing for diversity in online learning. Examines how cultural differences can affect learning and shares culturally inclusive instructional design models. Table 1 on page 6 compares high-context and low-context learning (such as how formal student-teacher relationships are).
Imported from Diigo#highered#diversity#communication#community#context#instructionaldesign#elearning
·eric.ed.gov·
An Inclusive Approach to Online Learning Environments: Models and Resources (PDF)
Designing for Diversity Within Online Learning Environments
Designing for Diversity Within Online Learning Environments

The author argues that constructivist learning environments where multiple perspectives are respected and there is no single "right "answer" are better for encouraging diversity. The ideas for instructional design for diversity are more theory-based than practice-based, but this has some interesting concepts.

"The major advantage of this learning model is that one of its key design goals is to encourage students to bring multiple perspectives to questions/cases/problems/issues and projects as part of their learning. This approach to learning views diversity as a strength to be exploited rather than a problem to be solved."

Imported from Diigo#diversity#constructivism#instructionaldesign#highered#elearning
·ascilite.org.au·
Designing for Diversity Within Online Learning Environments