Comments on: Absent from Blog! http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/2013/02/14/absent-from-blog/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:48:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Giraf87 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/2013/02/14/absent-from-blog/#comment-119 Giraf87 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:02:58 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/?p=176#comment-119 It is clear from your story that the worldwide web isn't quite any of those 3 components depending on where one lives. There are political and economic considerations too. There is a certain romanticism involved, i.e. being untouched by technology, but I fear that in the long term by being in this forced exclusion, there is so much more that might be negatively affected. With regards to the MOOC I guess there won't be many students from that part of the world signing up. It illustrates the digital divide quite starkly. One of the comments I had on my pinboard was about passing on the knowledge from the MOOC to those that could not get access - in that case it was about the English language barrier and how it was translated by a MOOC student from English into the local language. But for where you are now, they don't have that option, or if they do, on occasion, it would be utterly challenging. It is clear from your story that the worldwide web isn’t quite any of those 3 components depending on where one lives. There are political and economic considerations too. There is a certain romanticism involved, i.e. being untouched by technology, but I fear that in the long term by being in this forced exclusion, there is so much more that might be negatively affected.

With regards to the MOOC I guess there won’t be many students from that part of the world signing up. It illustrates the digital divide quite starkly. One of the comments I had on my pinboard was about passing on the knowledge from the MOOC to those that could not get access – in that case it was about the English language barrier and how it was translated by a MOOC student from English into the local language. But for where you are now, they don’t have that option, or if they do, on occasion, it would be utterly challenging.

]]> By: cmeckenstock http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/2013/02/14/absent-from-blog/#comment-113 cmeckenstock Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:40:42 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/?p=176#comment-113 Hi Annabel, The opportunity to step outside the box and rethink the concept of digital culture could be quite a revelation! I await to hear more about your experience. When connection keeps breaking and the upload of a small file takes a whole hour, I used to wonder if I should be looking at progress from the eyes of a non digital user, or from the other side of the experience. Hi Annabel, The opportunity to step outside the box and rethink the concept of digital culture could be quite a revelation! I await to hear more about your experience. When connection keeps breaking and the upload of a small file takes a whole hour, I used to wonder if I should be looking at progress from the eyes of a non digital user, or from the other side of the experience.

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