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RETHINKING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE:
Learning from the Learners’ Experiences of e-Learning
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
No excuse for not knowing where it is!
Culture ……. and shop until you drop!
Just like the seaside ……. but no sand and sea!
Book ALT-C 2008 in your diary!
Leeds, UK, 9 -11 September 2008
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