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ERIC Number: EJ666632
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0007-1013
Reality Bytes: Examining the Rhetoric of Widening Educational Participation via ICT.
Selwyn, Neil; Gorard, Stephen
British Journal of Educational Technology, v34 n2 p169-81 Mar 2003
Discussion of information and communications technology in the United Kingdom focuses on contrasting government rhetoric concerning post-compulsory electronic learning with an analysis of data from the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education survey. Results suggest that access to ICT does not in itself make people more likely to participate in education. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Information Technology, Participation, Surveys
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Access to Technology; Electronic Learning; United Kingdom
Note: Issue theme: Rhetoric and Reality: The Present and Future of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in Education.