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Enhancing the human experience of learning with technology: new challenges for research into digital, open, distance & networked education
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Since the emergence of the new information and communication technologies, a new social
gap has appeared, between those who know how to use the new technologies and those who
don't: the digital divide. As a way to overcome this gap, international organizations have made
a series of recommendations for governments to create digital inclusion programs to
empower the population in need of technological knowledge. Since the end of the last
century, governments (local, regional, national) have begun to create these programmes, with
greater or lesser success, whose initial objective of technological training has evolved to the
development of skills that allow the individual to fully develop his/her digital citizenship.
This PhD dissertation started with this research question: What is the effect of digital inclusion
programmes on the level of digital literacy of individuals and on greater participation
community? It seeks to analyse the influence of Digital Literacy as a mechanism to reduce
social exclusion and enhance individual and community development, as well as to create a
theoretical model for analysing the influence of Digital Literacy on the individual and the
community. The main theoretical pillars on which the study is based are in the field of Digital
Literacy and Informational, the digital divide, digital citizenship and digital inclusion in
different areas of education systems (formal, non-formal, informal).
The empirical study consists in the analysis of two cases, the Internet Access Spaces in Alentejo
(Portugal) and the KZgunea in the Basque Country (Spain), in three dimensions: Public Policies
and Digital Inclusion Programmes (Access) through Documentation Analysis; Monitors and
facilitators of the centres (Usage), with the carrying out of personal interviews; Users of the
centres with questionnaires carried out in person and online. We are currently finishing the
analysis of the interviews and the writing of the theoretical chapters. We are also evaluating
the close of application of the questionnaires due to COVID19. We have the intellect to deposit
the dissertation in 2021.
Description
The EDEN Eleventh Research Workshop – 21-23 October 2020 in collaboration with Universidade Aberta, LE@D, UAb, Portugal.
Keywords
Digital literacy Digital citizenship Digital inclusion programs Digital empowerment Social participation
Citation
Palmeiro, R., Pereda, V. & Aires, L.(2020). Enhancing the Human Experience of Learning with Technology: New challenges for research into digital, open, distance & networked education.The EDEN research Workshop – 21-23 October, Universidade Aberta, LE@D, Portugal
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EDEN / Universidade Aberta - LE@D