2019 - 07 - 27 - Cultural Awareness And Removing Barriors To Learning

Today I wanted to take an opportunity to talk about cultural diversity and the responsibilities of instructional designers to take cultural diversity into consideration to remove barriers to learning. This involves both language barriers as well as other considerations. Probably the largest consideration that I forgot to mention in the video is visual representation. Every time I look at anything I tend to see a reflection of myself back at me as a middle-aged white guy. It has become clear that when your learners can see themselves in the instructional materials they are more engaged and more successful.