+ - 'Bandwidth Divide' Could Bar Some From Free Online Courses->
Submitted
by
Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "The Bandwidth Divide is a form of what economists call the Red Queen effect referring to a scene in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass when Alice races the Red Queen. As the Red Queen tells Alice: "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" Keeping up with digital technology is like that race—it takes a continual investment of money and time just to keep up with the latest, and an exceptional amount of work to get ahead of the pack. "The question is, What is the new basic?" said one researcher. "There will always be inequality. But 100 years after the introduction of the car, not everybody has a Ferrari, but everyone has access to some form of motorized transportation through buses." Well, not everyone, but even fewer people have the online equivalent. Colleges considering MOOCs should remember that."
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
'Bandwidth Divide' Could Bar Some From Free Online Courses More Login
'Bandwidth Divide' Could Bar Some From Free Online Courses