Brecha digital
Articles
e-Learning & Digital Divide
30 July 2007
Modern society is considered to be a society based on knowledge, knowledge whereby, education, learning communities with the support of the information and communications technologies are forces which drive social and economic development.
But there also exist people who are excluded from the society of information as a result of rooted structural, economic and political inequalities. This difference denominates Digital Divide and it explains the social and economic barriers which arise as a result of the differentiated access to the Internet and to information and communication technologies (ICT).
One subject of permanent controversy is related to the mechanisms of integration of the most underprivileged sectors, those who are considered to be excluded from this economy of knowledge.
Diverse authors express their individual perspective, some more optimistic than others, on the role that technologies of information and communication will have in the reduction of this breach. Lamentably, economic and social indicators show a progressive widening of this divide, which indicates that their current efforts are insufficient.
Education has a vital role to play in the reduction of this divide and it is the responsibility of governments, educational institutions and judicial organizations to provide a legal, economic and social infrastructure that favours and benefits people living in poor and rural areas.
e-Learning, that being the use of new multimedia technology and the internet applied to the education-learning process opens an interesting perspective in support of lifelong learning, the continuous development of services and contents of quality which strengthen democracy and open the way to the development of a civil society with all its diversity and cultural wealth.
The full text is available in Spanish (PDF)
One subject of permanent controversy is related to the mechanisms of integration of the most underprivileged sectors, those who are considered to be excluded from this economy of knowledge.
Diverse authors express their individual perspective, some more optimistic than others, on the role that technologies of information and communication will have in the reduction of this breach. Lamentably, economic and social indicators show a progressive widening of this divide, which indicates that their current efforts are insufficient.
Education has a vital role to play in the reduction of this divide and it is the responsibility of governments, educational institutions and judicial organizations to provide a legal, economic and social infrastructure that favours and benefits people living in poor and rural areas.
e-Learning, that being the use of new multimedia technology and the internet applied to the education-learning process opens an interesting perspective in support of lifelong learning, the continuous development of services and contents of quality which strengthen democracy and open the way to the development of a civil society with all its diversity and cultural wealth.
The full text is available in Spanish (PDF)