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Contents of Inclusive e-learning (compared to Digital Inclusion)

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Inclusive e-learning (compared to Digital Inclusion)

• Increasing access to technologies
• Discourse dominated by arguments regarding the digital divide, social exclusion and barriers
• The paradoxical second digital divide
• Have access to technology but can't make full use of it
• Inclusive e-learning starting to be viewed as a continuum
• Introduction of notion of optimum accessibility
• Practitioners are encouraged to focus on the characteristics of the technology in order to improve design processes and systems