Online learning holds great promise – but mostly for the well-off
Online learning holds great promise – but mostly for the well-off
- March 28, 2015
- Mimi Ito, anthropology and informatics professor and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, is featured in PRI Mar. 28, 2015
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From PRI:
Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine …. Has
found that new technology has the tendency to give students who are already highly
educated and come from wealthier backgrounds "superpowers." It separates people into
two groups: Those who can easily access new technology and new ways of learning, and
those who can’t.
For the full story, please visit http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-03-28/online-learning-holds-great-promise-mostly-well.
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