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Most recent post: 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.