Wireless Videoconferencing and Distance learning for Rural Communities: A Case Study
Abstract:- This case study reports the sociocultural effects of an e-learning infrastructure collaboratively developed by five semi-isolated communities in Newfoundland, Canada. A wireless wide area network provides inter-community videoconferencing and the delivery of online courses to the schools....
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.534.9538 http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2005tenerife/papers/502-201.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract:- This case study reports the sociocultural effects of an e-learning infrastructure collaboratively developed by five semi-isolated communities in Newfoundland, Canada. A wireless wide area network provides inter-community videoconferencing and the delivery of online courses to the schools. In response to a changing learning environment, educators and students show they are able to overturn exclusionary power relations and find means for asserting their own authority and power over the technology and the situation. |
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