Intercultural Learning!

The last days we (Luuk and I) have spend in Rome with the Spanish/Italian/Dutch development team. Our task and mission is to create a feasible and powerful course on e-Learning Fundamentals for a varied group of learners. We are aiming at 250 learners, all over Europe.

The course will be build using the cultural model of Hofstede. With the course we are testing if the variables of Hofstede are also suitable when we are talking about e-Learning and a young, globalized population.


The development team

E.g. to explain it a bit: Hofstede is using Uncertainty avoidance as a differentiator for intercultural audience. People from a culture with a high score on uncertainty avoidance will prefer highly structured and leading learning content with a clear and straightforward language. People from cultures with a low uncertainty avoidance will prefer more explorative, open learning situations and content. An example of a country with low uncertainty avoidance is The Netherlands (score 51/100), a country with high uncertainty avoidance is Greece (score 95/100). We will create the course in such a varied way that the preferences will lead us to the conclusion if the Hofstede model is suitable for e-Learning and new generations as well.

The course will start on 21st of May and will have duration of 6 weeks. Every week will have a Teaser, a WBT, a learner generating content activity and a Reflection activity. We will use Moodle as the learning platform and eXe as the WBT creation tool.

If you are interested in participating in the course, just drop a mail or reaction.