Cultural Considerations

Cultural Considerations Culture can be more of a source of conflict than one of cooperation within e-learning use, and educational institutions should have more of a focus of the concepts of diversity within development. Pluralism in e-learning can be defined as a class with participants from diverse ethnic, racial, religious and social groups who maintain participation in their own traditions and special interests while working with other students’ toward the completion and understanding of course materials (Salgur & Gursoy, 2015). Institutions then should construct courses in which the background and circumstances of learners can be determined and the class norms can reflect the need of diverse students and instructors. For example, Chinese

He stated that there are unique challenges that Black children face in learning due to a variety of circumstances and that looking at mathematical performance and instruction through the lens of theories such as cultural-ecological theory, racial identity development theory, sociological theory, critical theory, as well as critical race theory, and critical policy analysis (Martin, 2012). The way that the portrayal of young Black children in the United States and around the world is one where they are often viewed as thugs and are often striped of their childhood qualities by representing them as urban terrorists and often thought of as having fixed set of cultural and cognitive explanations for poor performance (Martin, 2012). Cultural variations exist so much just within the United States and Martin (2012) challenges the idealization that Black students are illiterate in mathematics, and hopes that there is a focus on how Black students may learn differently than their white counterparts. The complex nature of culture demonstrates a need for cultural sensitivity and a targeted

This ensured that members of the educational community were aware, informed, and practiced appropriate ethics use in their work (Yeaman, 2013a). Yeaman (2013b) emphasized that institutions and professions should utilize ethics in a preventative way, not as a method of catching unethical behavior, and it is up to the professional institution to customize and educate the particular participants in the specifics of ethical foundational requirements. The change of current practice of explicitly teaching ethical practices from those provided during the origination of organizations, such as the AECT, is a positive movement to ensure awareness of expectations (Yeaman, 2013b). Professional ethics provide a moral foundation in which to work upon to ensure that there is recognition of a right way and a wrong way to