ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how to create culturally inclusive online learning communities. Those who stand to benefit from online education and training represent a more diverse group than those designing the technologies, content, and pedagogies that compose digital learning. The chapter focuses on differences rooted in culture because of its unique role in how people think and communicate. National cultures can include hundreds of millions of people. But cultures can also exist at regional, communal, organizational, and familial levels. Instruction that promotes learning across cultures seeks to accommodate diverse perspectives and preferences by the principles of universal design for learning rather than anticipate individual learner differences upfront. A new instructional design framework focused on diverse learning cohorts that cultivate wisdom by solving complex problems. The chapter represents the most complete presentation of the framework to date and provides a range of tools, techniques, and strategies to cultivate wisdom communities.
