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Technological Distance: A New Way of Conceptualizing the "Distance" in Distance Learning
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Jon Dron – OTESSA Conference Proceedings, 2024
This paper presents the concept of "technological distance," which describes a gap between technologies (broadly defined to include methods, tools, principles, and processes) available for a learner to learn, and those needed to complete that learning. This gap is a measure of both the participation and autonomy of learners in the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Access to Computers, Access to Internet, Equal Education