rethinking the digital divide: learning from the learners’ experiences of e-learning
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Rethinking Digital DIVIDES between:
GLOBAL V LOCAL
How do learners’ experiences in the developing world inform the developed world and vice-versa?
INSTITUTION V INDIVIDUAL
Are there advantages in learners using their own social software outside institutional VLEs?
PEDAGOGY V TECHNOLOGY
Do learners experience pedagogic/technological divides?
CONTROL V FREEDOMHow do learners experience e-learning institutional controls?
ACCESS V EXCLUSIONHow do diverse learners feel regarding access and inclusion?
NARROWING V CATCHING UPDo learners perceive that digital divides are reducing/increasing?
OPEN V PROPRIETARYWhat do learners think re. Open vs. Proprietary software issues?
WHAT OTHER DIGITAL DIVIDES
DO YOU RECOGNISE FOR LEARNERS?
How should ALT-C 2008 identify these?
Come along to debate the issues!
Hans Rosling
Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden Director of the Gapminder Foundation
David Cavallo
Chief Learning Architect: One Laptop per Child Head, Future of Learning Research Group, MIT Media Lab
Itiel Dror
Senior Lecturer in Cognitive NeuroscienceThe University of Southampton
The keynote speakers