Incorporating Cultural Values into the ADDIE Approach to Instructional Design.

This article discusses treating cultural values as assets in the instructional design and development process. The selected ideas are based on educational technology frameworks that have successfully facilitated culturally pluralistic teaching and learning processes during the last decade. The topics bound by these ideas are consistent with a generic ADDIE approach to instructional design. Further, the ideas promote a positive correlation between the values held by an individual and those held by the learning community to which that individual may belong.