Meting out diversity

The whole diversity thing bothers me. Has for some time. We seem to love the optics of diversity, but not so much the reality.  And so we mete out our diversity in acceptable chunks at acceptable moments. And in doing so we can fool ourselves - most of the time. We also mete out our … Continue reading Meting out diversity

Why is multi-cultural understanding important in e-Learning?

Just came across this very interesting infographic while trying to justify a moral gut-feeling on why we need to care about multi-cultural, multi-lingual (MCML) learning environment accommodation for all students. If nothing else - it impacts on the bottom line!

A linguistic Trio – part 3 – della Chiesa

Bruno della ChiesaIf I may for a moment make a librarian analogy, the talk of della Chiesa compared to the other two was a bit like when I looked at information literacy from a more philosophical view rather than a model and implementation view.  Neither is more important than the other. Language doesn't happen without … Continue reading A linguistic Trio – part 3 – della Chiesa