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 **Design - Curriculum & content**

Curriculum and content should be adapted to include localised material with links to the students' environment. This process is referred to as //Glocalization// by Wellburn and Claeys (2004) and the concept is further supported by Edmundson (2005) who stresses the importance of localised content for ensuring that learners in the target culture are able to relate to the content of the course. Adaptation of content could include the use of local words or phrases, culturally appropriate references, units of measure, food and etiquette to list but a few.

 The assessment of an eLearning course will also differ as the theory behind the learning will be different. New Zealand designed courses will be informed more by Vygotsky's theory of knowledge construction (1987), whereas Japanese designed courses will be informed by a behaviourist theory of learning (Mutch, 2005). New Zealand students will be more comfortable in selecting an 'open' style of assessment where they can direct their own topic and have their peers take part in the assessment, whereas this will not be the case for Japanese students.

 It is strongly advised by the writers of this wiki that one culture does not enforce its ideal of learning onto another. eLearning runs the risk of being a modern day version of colonisation that results in the less ‍‍dominant ‍‍voice becoming silent and the resulting loss of knowledge and cultural identity.

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