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 * Proposal submission #20320**

Global Integration in an Online Classroom Setting
 * Title**

Therese Kanai, University of Phoenix, Online, USA, tkanai@email.phoenix.edu
 * Presenter(s)**

The format of this "submission" will be through the use of PowerPoint, live video chat conferencing including text messaging, voice, and polling. Other materials will not be needed for the facilitators or participants.
 * Description**

This forum will address "Global Integration in an Online Classroom Setting." As educators move forward into the twenty-first century, online education is more prevalent. Due to this fact, learners and instructors need to take a proactive role in the future development of the learning environment.

The goal of the session will be on creating a learning venue that is conducive to the diversity of the online learner. No longer are we bound by the conventional four walls of the past in relationship to our educational setting. We must now embrace the diversity of all learners and instructors in order to experience a rich learning experience.

The purpose of the forum is to help further enable participants with the necessary skills regarding strategies to bring harmony with diversity into the classroom setting. A focus on acceptance of differences will be addressed.

The objective of this session is to provide strategies whereby all learners feel they can share their value and expertise with others in the forum. Collaboration of ideas will be stressed along with working in collaboration with others to understand differences in learning styles and enhance the findings of commonalities with other areas.

General session Forum
 * Notes & Comments**