Cultural diversity between city and village students : a teachers' perspective on bridging the cultural gap in a blended learning setting

Abstract EN

There are currently increasing concerns about how teachers, delivering their courses in a blended learning setting, can enhance and customize the learning process by providing the courses in a way that bridges the cultural gap between students.

It is noticeable that there are some cultural differences between students studying in cities and villages.

This study identifies these differences and possible methods to bridge the diverse in theses cultural differences in order to enhance the learning to the benefit of students from both cultures.

In addition, Bridging the cultural diversity in this study assumed as pre-requisite for enhanced blended learning settings, which gives the students a supporting space of opportunities to easily understand the course and interact.

This study uses a focus group methodology investigating the perspectives of teachers, tutoring in blended learning setting.

Specifically, the cultural differences between a student from Jerusalem city and Bethany village studying at one Palestinian University have been investigated.