Cultural Consideration in Online Learning Environment: A Case Discussion of HBMSU Learners, Dubai UAE

Abstract

Universities have been challenged by their environments’ changes from having the traditional classes environments to the online environment. Nowadays, students’ growing up with the culture of the devices and technologies. Therefore, while having online classes rapidly spread among high-education, the students engaged those classes to have diverse behaviors according to their education and ethnic backgrounds. Because of this, the challenges face the education faculty and the environment designers are to be taking those differences into consideration and develop the educational offers accordingly. As students’ perceptions and opinions to their satisfaction level toward the online learning courses have taken the attention of the educational researchers. This paper reviews the previous research which is focusing on the cultures’ questions within the online learning. However, none of them have been concentrated on specific variables to be studied. This study addresses the previous research gaps.The aim of the study to help the students of HBMSU university finding answers and solutions for their worries. Specifically, Focusing on the influence of diversified cultures on the students’ engagement within the online classes. In order to search for the best effective ways to get the desired outcomes considering the students’ differences. Having such study that investigates the students’ needs and assesses their factors will give our university the chance to enhance their level of the provided services. Online universities always showing themselves as the best to fit the whole world students. But what is the reality that there are a lot of students are suffering. So, Does the traditional classes’ problems that resulted of the cultures variances transferred to the online classes too?The study conducted by developing a web-based survey that reaches a number of students from different majors that existing in our HBMSU University. Perceived their satisfaction level based on multiple factors, and test to which extent their cultures factors have an effect on that.

Keywords: Educational & Ethnic Background, Enhance Online-learning, Student’s satisfaction.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-9-13

Publication date:March 31^st 2019