Distributed Learning Environment in Multicultural Context: A Symposium

Globalization of education in a true sense cannot be achieved only by establishing accessibility, developing cost effective technologies. Due to easy accessibility of information, communication, resources and movement of people from one place to another, teachers in a classroom or outside the classroom have to deal with many more different situations than ever before. Present day classrooms (traditional and virtual) consist of students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. All these issues, challenges and demands cannot be solved overnight or by an individual. Discussions were held on some of these issues during the symposium session through brainstorming, idea generation and visual representation of distributed cognition. General issues of multicultural setup concerning design, delivery and communication in distributed learning environment were discussed. In this article the authors have summarised the points discussed and emerging ideas for future work to be done in this regard