Designing for International Learners
I am an Instructional Designer, and I am also an International learner. I believe these identities allowed me to share my experience here with you about what should be considered in designing for International learners.
First of all, we should consider their culture, history, political, and religion background. For example, if we design a course inserted some pattern or symbol which has bad means in some religions. That will hurt the learners.
Secondly, we should consider what their learning styles and techniques are? Different country and region's learner have the different mix of learning styles preference. Based on their age, gender, growth environment, educational background and so on. The student has developed a learning mechanism that most suitable for themselves. Some learner prefers to learn combined words and pictures, but some may like voice and animation combination more. We should design for them based on which combination would be most suitable for them
The last but not the least, we should consider their economic conditions, existing educational resources, and tools. We are able to design in various ways with different tools. But not everyone shares the same learning environments and opportunities. We have the condition and ability to study by distance learning, we can learn on MOOCs, and we can reach out to the open educational resources. But in some countries and religions, especially the majority of the third world countries, people who live there may have no chance to learn through the web or virtual environment in their entire life. So we should design in a certain way that can make sure deliver the contents to them.
First of all, we should consider their culture, history, political, and religion background. For example, if we design a course inserted some pattern or symbol which has bad means in some religions. That will hurt the learners.
Secondly, we should consider what their learning styles and techniques are? Different country and region's learner have the different mix of learning styles preference. Based on their age, gender, growth environment, educational background and so on. The student has developed a learning mechanism that most suitable for themselves. Some learner prefers to learn combined words and pictures, but some may like voice and animation combination more. We should design for them based on which combination would be most suitable for them
The last but not the least, we should consider their economic conditions, existing educational resources, and tools. We are able to design in various ways with different tools. But not everyone shares the same learning environments and opportunities. We have the condition and ability to study by distance learning, we can learn on MOOCs, and we can reach out to the open educational resources. But in some countries and religions, especially the majority of the third world countries, people who live there may have no chance to learn through the web or virtual environment in their entire life. So we should design in a certain way that can make sure deliver the contents to them.
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