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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Inequality kills – the future of online learning in distance education
On Friday, 24 August 2012, Tanya Gold posted a piece in The Guardian relating to the denial of class in British society starting with the words “Inequality kills.” In the article, Gold (2012) reflects on the increasing inequality in British … Continue reading
Posted in OMDE601
Tagged distance education, e-learning, Evgeny Morozov, graduates, higher education, inequality, John Gray, manuel castells, Tanya Gold, technology, Zygmunt Bauman
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Romanticizing the past in higher and distance education
How we miss the time when academics were ‘real’ professors, students could read and write, academics had academic freedom, Faculty had more staff than the administrative sections of the university, academics could teach what they wanted, higher education was a … Continue reading
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Tagged distance education, e-learning, EPIC2020, higher education, identity, Kwame Appiah, manuel castells, open distance learning, technology
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The myth of the ‘average learner’ in distance education (#OMDE)
What does the ‘average learner’ look like in distance education? Considering that distance education has always been known for providing access to students who would have been excluded from higher education opportunities – the demographic profiles, competencies, educational and life-history … Continue reading
A Kodak moment for Distance Education (DE)? #OMDE
There are many experts in higher education (see e.g. Davidson & Goldberg, 2009) and in particular, distance education (DE) (see e.g. Anderson, Boyles, & Rainie, 2010; Peters, 2010), who claim that we are on the brink of, or even in … Continue reading
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Tagged digital age, distance education, e-learning, higher education, obsolesence, open distance learning
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