• DocumentCode
    1481629
  • Title

    Bridging the Bandwidth Gap: Open Educational Resources and the Digital Divide

  • Author

    Haßler, B. ; Jackson, Alan McNeil

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Commonwealth Educ., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • Volume
    3
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    110
  • Lastpage
    115
  • Abstract
    This paper presents an overview of Digital Divide issues associated with the global disparity in availability and cost of bandwidth. We give examples and discuss the relevance of this to global use of Open Educational Resources. Strategies for mitigating low-bandwidth challenges are discussed.
  • Keywords
    Internet; computer aided instruction; data communication; bandwidth gap; data communications; digital divide; low-bandwidth mitigation strategy; open educational resources; Bandwidth; DH-HEMTs; Data communication; Special issues and sections; Three dimensional displays; Transcoding; Low-bandwidth operation; Transcoding; data communications aspects; network management.;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Learning Technologies, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1939-1382
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TLT.2010.8
  • Filename
    5456359
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1481629