Is online learning inherently inequitable? Such a nettlesome question lays bare one of online learning’s most long enduring Achilles Heels—that it benefits learners with significant financial and educational advantages while neglecting the poorest and most educationally disadvantaged ones.
If you’ve spent any time in the technology in education world, particularly in developing country donor-funded work, you probably know the general lament about the many deficiencies of educational technology research: its paucity, its poverty and lack of purity.
This blog was written by Mary Burns, Education Development Center, and Peter Orne, a Boston-based communications consultant and former Editorial Director of the Wireless Internet...
This blog was written by Mary Burns, Education Development Center. It was originally published on the K-12 Talk website on 2 December 2020. With large-scale school shutdowns, the ensuing...
This blog was written by Mary Burns, a technology and professional development specialist at Education Development Center. She helps Ministries of Education, universities and schools...
This blog is written by Mary Burns, Education Development Center. It is part 1 of 2 blogs about the options teachers and educators have at their disposal to continue teaching online during...
This blog is written by Mary Burns, Education Development Center. She takes a look at the four most common distance technology for contractors, donors and educators who find themselves...