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The other end of the telescope
From open access to open education...
... a developing country view
The need for open access
... the scale of the problem
Books published
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Population
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Let them read cake?
Library borrowing
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it gets worse...
Science research
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Poverty
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if research is the reservoir that feeds knowledge
and provides the content for teaching and learning
we have a famine
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Tertiary education
and there is a very real body count
How can we resolve the problem?
When it comes to teaching and learning
can there be feast instead of famine?
The environment is changing
online learning
vv
can replace scarcity with abundance
Is changing the dynamics of education
It is not just content...
but scaffolding and process...
social networking and communities of practice....
the light at the end of the tunnel?
