Cultural Differences in Perspectives of Post-secondary Students on Online Instructional Features and Visual Design Principles

Influence of Culture
Face to Face Environment
Onine Instucture Environment
Onlince instructional context
All involved with Cultural Difference in Instuctional Environments Today

Influence of Culture:
Learner Expectations
Interaction with instructor/peers
Instructional design
Instructor Cultural knowledge
Learner outcomes

Face2Face Enviroment:
Teacher-student-peer setting
Natural teaching-learning
Multicultural sensitivity
Interaction based
Transparency non-verbal cues

Online Instructional Enviroment:
Reliance on visual display
No visual contact
Designed for access focus
Visual display same for all
Self-paced

Online Instructional context:
Globalization
Cuture specific
unprecedented growth
US increased diversity
Does not appear to be an issue

Why are cultural differences not an online issue?
Lack of awareness
Research in e-learning is not a priority
Revenue over shadows everything
Just overlooked

Conceptual Framework
Visual Display
Post-Secondary
Online Instruction

Post secondary online learngs
linguistic backgrounds
interaction style
visual behavior

No difference was found based on gender or age, differences were related to the language

Western learners tend to have a more analytical cognitive learning style
East Asian tend to

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