Different cultures also show different strategies for learning. For instance, in Middle East, the culture of learning is more that of memorization and repetition while as for western people it is more that of inference and critical thinking. The new media not only facilitate a changed culture of learning in institutional contexts, they also demand such changes. They provide new opportunities and challenges by:
• offering a wider range of teaching contents (especially teaching methods);
• enabling more self-directed learning, offering a range of choices, individual learning pathways and freer forms of learning;
• offering teachers and learners the chance to plan and organize courses together (empowering learners to influence the choice of teaching contents);
• freeing learning and teaching from the limitations and constraints of the traditional classroom by opening up and using spaces outside the school/ teaching institution;
• facilitating communication between learners and between learners and the teacher via the Internet