Module 4: Strategies and tools for Distance Education

Module 4: Strategies and tools for Distance Education

Module 3: Storyboard

Module 2 Global diversity

Distance education provides learners and teachers with solutions to overcome diversity issues. With technologies used to deliver learning materials, it is possible to break all the barriers that impeded access to knowledge in the past. Online education, especially, caters for anyone learner without discrimination. And this evolution was made possible with the advances in innovations and new technologies. The world has become a global village where knowledge is accessible from anywhere, thus minimizing diversity issues. For example, students from a given country in the third world could access the same course content available to their peers in developed countries. In this context, a face to face format would not benefit learners. As Johnson (2011) suggested, “the definition of global diversity should encompass an understanding of the differences between countries and the internal diversity of each country.”
Online education also provides tools that allow students to interact with instructors along with their classmates:
Emails
Threaded discussions
Chat
Skype
Videoconferencing websites – http://www.cilc.org/
Online forums



References

Johnson, S. (2011). What globalization means for diversity and inclusion efforts. Profiles in Diversity Journal. Retrievced from : http://www.diversityjournal.com/4919-what-globalization-means-for-diversity-and-inclusion-efforts/