Session 11 Weaving Cultural Content in Online Courses for Native American Learners
Lori Lambert Salish, Kootenai Tribal College
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Academic and education professionals told us it could never be done: All the data points to the fact that Native Americans could never learn on-line because their learning styles do not support online learning; they haven’t got a sense of structuring time; they don’t have the discipline. For the past 6 years Salish Kootenai College has been successfully offering native American learners online courses leading to bachelor degrees. Over 1400 native students have taken courses online.
Native learning styles were assessed through the Canfield Learning Styles Inventory, through focus groups, and individual interviews; courses were designed using Gagne’s Elements of instruction and the Constructivist Learning Theory. Frank Tyro has researched the on-line experiences of Native learners and the presentation focuses on his research in the field.
Lori Lambert, Ph.D., RN
 An enrolled member of the Abenaki Tribe and descendent of Mi’kmaq and French Canadians, Dr. Lambert is the recipient of the 2001 Excellence in ALN Teaching Award from the Sloan –C group of colleges and universities. Currently Dr. Lambert is the Director for Distance Education and Curriculum Coordinator at Salish Kootenai Tribal College on the Flathead Indian Reservation where she designs and teaches the following online courses:
- Environmental Health
- Social and Environmental Ethics
- Tribal Health
- Sociology, Psychology, Pharmacology of substance Abuse
- Function and Structure of the Human body
- Environmental Science: Meaning in Indigenous Religion
- Holistic Wellness
International Issues of Salmon and First Nations
- Native American Women
- Native American Wellness
- Mentoring for Distance Education
- Elementary Microbiology
- Native American Contributions
- Beading
She has trained over 100 faculty in Lotus Notes Learning Space from Salish Kootenai College, University of Montana, South Dakota School of Mines, The Evergreen State College, Northwest Indian College, Gonzaga University who have gone on to create over 200 online courses. She is a much sought after conference presenter and is internationally known as a researcher and lecturer. Dr. Lori Lambert has presented in Australia, Finland, Norway, Canada, and Russia.
Dr. Lambert graduated with her nursing diploma in Boston, Massachusetts. After working in the Philippines for two years, she returned to the States to complete her graduate work. She received the Ph.D. in Medical Ecology: Northern Studies from the Union Institute and University of Arts and Sciences, Cincinnati, Ohio, and her Master Degree in Environmental Science Education from Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania. She holds additional Masters competencies from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and 10 credits in an MPH International Health program from Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Recently, Dr. Lambert completed a post-doctoral certificate in distance education and technology from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
She is the author of numerous articles and three books: Through the Northern Looking: Breast Cancer Stories told by Northern Native Women published by National League for Nursing, 1996; Keepers of the Central Fire: Issues in Ecology for Indigenous Peoples published by Jones & Bartlett in 2000; Heart of the Salmon, Spirit of the People: Ethnicity, Pollution and Cultural Loss. (2002).1st Books Library.
With over 25 years of teaching at distance via cable television, video conference, and online Dr. Lambert makes a valuable contribution to the SKC Distance Education.
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