期刊名称：Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1992-8645
电子版ISSN：1817-3195
出版年度：2020
卷号：98
期号：9
页码：1466-1478
出版社：Journal of Theoretical and Applied
摘要：Cultural diversity is an important element in education that should not be neglected, given that it can lead to subtle differences in the nature of classroom discussions, student and teacher expectations, and overall classroom etiquette, as well as the degree of acceptance of technology. This study was carried out at the Saudi Electronic University, an online tertiary institution, with a sample of 128 first-year and 142 fourth-year students together with 65 teachers. It focused on discovering students' satisfaction with how cultural diversity was addressed, as well as measuring teachers' awareness of cultural diversity issues at the University. The findings indicated a lack of satisfaction among students with how cultural diversity was addressed, and that teachers did not have sufficient experience with issues of cultural diversity in the online classroom. The study concluded with a discussion of appropriate strategies for addressing cultural diversity in the online classroom, in addition to some design strategies for multicultural online courses through using computer-supported collaborative learning environments and social network learning communities. Hence, this study might help in creating online classrooms for all through using strategies like these to overcome students cultural diversity.
