Culture issues and the Web The Web learning environment is potentially a powerful arena in which new practices and new relationships can make significant contributions to learning. However, attention needs to be paid to on-line learning processes. For learning to be successfully delivered on-line, the learning process on the Web needs to be well facilitated. Naturally, these requirements become even more critical in culturally diverse learning environments. Informational use is defined as making course information, such as course outline and assignment descriptions, available on the Web.
Supplemental use requires students to use the Web to complete part of the course.
The learning materials generally include links to related secondary sources. In fully developed use the entire course is delivered via the Web. Curtin University of Technology has a very diversified campus population, with its international student population being the fourth highest amongst all Australian universities. Five units from Curtin University of Technology were selected to participate in this study. Amongst them, one was a third year unit from Computer Science, another was a second year unit from Social Studies, the third one was a first year service unit from Engineering and the other two units, one at undergraduate and other at postgraduate level, were from the Business School.