Abstract: This panel will provide case studies reflecting socio-cultural issues into instructional designers with the current emerging technological trends around the world to make a social difference locally and globally. Design is a complex construct that is manifest in different ways. As a North American invention, instructional design is usually taught with little consideration to the environment within which it will be practiced. Understanding that there are different cultures of design at work has implications for informing theory and practice in instructional design. This book will provide instructional designers with a culturally sensitive, globally responsible, and morally coherent approach to instructional design. Specifically, this book will provide instructional designers with baseline information about how design is conducted in a handful of distinct geopolitical regions. The world is increasingly a global learning community that must share knowledge and work collaboratively, implying a need for open, free and unfettered communication among professions and across cultures.