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Welcome to Björn Haßler's website! My site about ICT, education, open access, media, and science. My work is about using ICT in education, and spans primary to higher education, both in European and African contexts.
You can contact me by email: bjoern (followed by AT sign) sciencemedianetwork (then a DOT) org
Note that some content is hosted on my wiki, and those links are marked with a little globe like this:.
Bjoern Hassler's most recent posts on Twitter:
- bjoernhassler: BBC News - Eta ceasefire scoop: how the BBC got the story http://bbc.in/bh999s (Monday 6th of September 2010 10:56:15 AM)
- bjoernhassler: BBC News - Basque separatist group Eta 'declares ceasefire' http://bbc.in/b9OVky (Sunday 5th of September 2010 03:06:13 PM)
- bjoernhassler: RT @ICT_Works: Sony Ericsson finally enters the Kenyan mobile phone market http://goo.gl/fb/pq0tZ #ICT4D #ictworksnetwork #hardware (Friday 3rd of September 2010 02:13:59 AM)
- bjoernhassler: BBC News - Galaxy Tab unveiled as Samsung's first tablet computer http://bbc.in/dxpG9Y (Thursday 2nd of September 2010 10:09:48 PM)
- bjoernhassler: This is the article referred to in the blog post: Photography with Open Source / Linux | Worldlabel Blog http://bit.ly/cHOdjp (Thursday 2nd of September 2010 09:18:42 AM)
- bjoernhassler: Digital Photography on Linux « Aptivate | A Blog for ICT4D http://bit.ly/9OsC1i (Thursday 2nd of September 2010 09:18:25 AM)
- bjoernhassler: BBC News - St Kilda celebrates 80th anniversary of island evacuation http://bbc.in/cbcEZ7 (Thursday 2nd of September 2010 09:16:09 AM)
- bjoernhassler: BBC News - Barack Obama urges Mid-East leaders to take opportunity http://bbc.in/bUIeLQ (Thursday 2nd of September 2010 09:15:12 AM)
- bjoernhassler: A "must watch documentary": BBC iPlayer - Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children http://bbc.in/byg8z0 (UK only, until Tue 7th Sept) (Wednesday 1st of September 2010 07:22:55 PM)
- bjoernhassler: Fast and Free Facebook Mobile Access with 0.facebook.com http://bit.ly/dl1BVf (blog post from May) (Tuesday 31st of August 2010 03:49:29 PM)
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Most recent blog entry: Blog/20100806 Bridging the Bandwidth Gap - OER and the Digital Divide
This paper has now been properly published!
- Björn Haßler (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Alan McNeil Jackson (Aptivate, Cambridge, UK)
- Bridging the Bandwidth Gap: Open Educational Resources and the Digital Divide
- IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, April-June 2010 (vol. 3 no. 2), pp. 110-115
This paper presents an overview of Digital Divide issues associated with the global disparity in availability and cost of bandwidth. We give examples and discuss the relevance of this to global use of Open Educational Resources. Strategies for mitigating low-bandwidth challenges are discussed.
- Other papers in the same issue here: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/transactions/tlt#3
Read the paper here Bridging the Bandwidth Gap - OER and the Digital Divide.
