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Author Bandyopadhyay, Somprakash

Title Bridging the education divide using social technologies / Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Arina Bardhan, Priyadarshini Dey, Sneha Bhattacharyya
Published Singapore : Springer, 2021

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Contents Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Education Divide: Concepts and Dimensions -- Chapter 3. Education Ecosystem: A Chronological Perspective -- Chapter 4. ICT in Education -- Chapter 5. Emergence of Social Technologies: Social Meets E-Learning -- Chapter 6. A Digital Framework towards Bridging Education Divide using Social Technology -- Chapter 7. Exploring Rural-Urban Education Divide in India -- Chapter 8. Online Blended Learning Platform for Educating Underprivileged Children: Creating Active Learners using Social Technologies -- Chapter 9. Online Blended Learning Platform for Rural Adult Learners: Bridging the Opportunity Divide through Community Formation -- Chapter 10. Implementation Challenges of the Online Blended Learning Platform: An Experiential Analysis from Ecosystemic Perspective -- Chapter 11. Conclusion
Summary This book explains the concept of education divide in rural India and identifies various factors that shape and sustain such a divide. In doing so, it also discusses a range of attempts undertaken to bridge the education divide. Subsequently, the book has attempted in providing a socio-technical framework towards optimally deploying social technologies for addressing the issue of education divide of marginalized communities. The proposed framework offers a transition from traditional content-centric, teacher-centric and centralized education ecosystem to a connection-centric, learner-centric and decentralized education ecosystem of the socio-digital age. It demonstrates how Internet-enabled digital platforms, based on the principles of sharism and mass collaboration using social technologies, could help to solve one of the greatest problems facing the world: mitigating the extant education divide by delivering quality education to underprivileged sections of society. The book also presents empirical validation of the proposed framework to show how a community-driven blended learning platform can mobilize the dormant knowledge capital of domain experts to teach underprivileged rural Indian children, as well as help form communities of practice to enable lifelong learning for the rural adult population. The book closes by pointing out the challenges involved in building an equitable education ecosystem using social technologies and ultimately the possibility of creating a fair and equitable society. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in the domain of education who want to transform education ecosystems by using technological and process-related innovations to improve educational practices for underprivileged sections of society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 16, 2021)
Subject Educational equalization -- India
Educational innovations -- India
Internet in education -- India
Educational equalization
Educational innovations
Internet in education
India
Form Electronic book
Author Bardhan, Arina
Dey, Priyadarshini
Bhattacharyya, Sneha
ISBN 9789813367388
9813367385