Access under siege: Are the gains of open education keeping pace with the growing barriers to university access?
Traditional and affordable access to a university education is under siege from all sides. National realpolitiks and global economic downturns have driven open education into the mainstream to stand against educational elitism, the growing digital divide, and to support the core values that give ed...
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International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
2013-01-01
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Traditional and affordable access to a university education is under siege from all sides. National realpolitiks and global economic downturns have driven open education into the mainstream to stand against educational elitism, the growing digital divide, and to support the core values that give education its fundamental credence as a human right. Indeed, open is good—open with measurable impacts is even better. In the final analysis, the future of open education is at a crossroads that must be driven by those core values that define education as an essential human right with a commitment to expanding access and strengthening academic quality.
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| spelling | doaj.art-9c610fc277bb425abfee89126948ef472023-11-17T10:21:16ZengInternational Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)Open Praxis1369-99972304-070X2013-01-0151Access under siege: Are the gains of open education keeping pace with the growing barriers to university access?Don Olcott Jr0Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi Traditional and affordable access to a university education is under siege from all sides. National realpolitiks and global economic downturns have driven open education into the mainstream to stand against educational elitism, the growing digital divide, and to support the core values that give education its fundamental credence as a human right. Indeed, open is good—open with measurable impacts is even better. In the final analysis, the future of open education is at a crossroads that must be driven by those core values that define education as an essential human right with a commitment to expanding access and strengthening academic quality. https://account.openpraxis.org/index.php/up-j-op/article/view/229Open educationaccessdistance learningquality assuranceOERshuman rights |
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| title | Access under siege: Are the gains of open education keeping pace with the growing barriers to university access? |
| title_full | Access under siege: Are the gains of open education keeping pace with the growing barriers to university access? |
| title_fullStr | Access under siege: Are the gains of open education keeping pace with the growing barriers to university access? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Access under siege: Are the gains of open education keeping pace with the growing barriers to university access? |
| title_short | Access under siege: Are the gains of open education keeping pace with the growing barriers to university access? |
| title_sort | access under siege are the gains of open education keeping pace with the growing barriers to university access |
| topic | Open education access distance learning quality assurance OERs human rights |
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