Instructional Technology
Conference 2007
Title: Let’s knock down some classroom walls and build a web-based learning, interactive multicultural environment among our online students.
Name:Hanan Kuzat
Audience Level: all
Audience: faculty, general
Length: 30-45 minutes
Abstract:
Internet makes the world smaller, puts the Earth in your hands. As international boundaries are falling down; let’s knock down some classroom walls and build a web-based learning, interactive multicultural environment among our online students.
As an online teacher I believe that providing professional assistance related to the cultural differences and coordinating the bridge to and from the student is the key of success of any online environment. The online learning system brought to us many students from different cultures, and as professionals we will take advantage of that to break all boundaries of cultural differences and bring up a highly interactive learning environment, this fact dependent on the teacher personnel's skill, effort, and willingness to know about other cultural differences.
Description:
Computers have been used for learning purposes for a long time, but when using the computer for teaching purposes as in online courses, it is important to create the online education system in such a way to be adaptive with the student capability and overall performance, not just showing the web pages, links, quizzes, and other teaching material as if we are browsing a book, without any response and adaptability to the student performance and capability.
New technologies make the education delivered to our online students easier, and academic organizations realize their effectiveness in education depends on employing workers who can relate to diverse cultures and students, online instructors should become aware of the differences among students, and being willing to accept these differences as a positive factor within an online class. And it all starts with you- the instructor, who should be able to build constructive and beneficial relationships by learning how to analyze situations, select and use productive communication strategies with students from all different cultures, using strategic management of diversity can drive innovation, create competitive advantage and increase students’ achievement.
There are many exciting ways to enhance teaching & learning, we should explore them, to help us integrate technology successfully and achieve our educational goals. Briefly; well-managed diverse classroom create a competitive advantage within the whole class.
Session Type: Lecture/Presentation
Contact information/affiliation:
Hanan Kuzat
Mathematics Instructor
Academic Enrichment, Advisement and Orientation
Developmental Studies
Mathematics Center
3500 John Merritt BLVD
Nashville , TN 37209