RETHINKING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: Learning from the Learners’ Experiences of e-Learning.

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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!

Where you will be!

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