Investigating the Role of Technology in Widening Participation in Lifelong Learning. Final Report.

Gorard, Stephen; Selwyn, Neil

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Title: Investigating the Role of Technology in Widening Participation in Lifelong Learning. Final Report.

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Title:	Investigating the Role of Technology in Widening Participation in Lifelong Learning. Final Report.
Authors:	Gorard, Stephen; Selwyn, Neil
Descriptors:	Adult Education; Computer Assisted Instruction; Computer Mediated Communication; Computer Uses in Education; Distance Education; Educational Development; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Lifelong Learning; Pilot Projects
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Publication Date:	2000-00-00
Pages:	8
Pub Types:	Reports - Research
Abstract:	This small-grant funded project was intended to act as a pilot study looking at the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in adult education. In particular, the project aimed to investigate the use of ICT in extending patterns of participation in adult education to those social groups presently excluded from learning; one of the oft-stated rationales for the funding of such programs in the United Kingdom and United States. Over the course of the year, the project followed the development of the Digital College ICT-based program in Wales, alongside the concurrent implementation of the UK-wide national government initiatives the "University for Industry" and "learndirect." In doing so, a range of research instruments were developed, used and refined, primary and secondary data were collected and analyzed, and directions for future research formulated. The scope of the data collected allowed a series of tentative conclusions to be reached regarding the effectiveness of ICT-based education to achieve its aims. The overall preliminary finding from the project is the wide disparity between the enthusiastic rhetoric surrounding ICT-based education and the reality 'on-the-ground,' as it presently stands. (Author/AEF)
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Identifiers:	Technology Role; United Kingdom
Record Type:	Non-Journal
Level:	1 - Available on microfiche
Institutions:	Cardiff Univ. (Wales).
Sponsors:	Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL.
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Languages:	English
Education Level:	Adult Education; Higher Education

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