Globalization-an Opportunity for the "Uneducated" to Become "Learned" or Further "Excluded"?

Distance and E-Learning in Transition: Learning Innovation, Technology and Social Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 301-310

  Bolger, Mary ^a  

^a Open University in Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Educational delivery; Exclusion; ICT; Inequality; Information age

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889336232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118557686.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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