Inequality in Online Higher Education
- Autores: Jarin Akther, Ridwanul Mosrur
- Localización: ICETIC: Innovative and Creative Education and Technology International Conference / Ramón Sanguino Galván (aut.), Ascensión Barroso Martínez (aut.), 2017, ISBN 978-84-16989-78-2, pág. 349
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The advancement of computer-mediated communication and internet technology helped the higher education institutions to conduct the online courses for the students from various parts of the world. That’s why students from both developed and developing countries can participate jointly through online courses. This online higher education system has been structured in this way the rich nations get more advantages than the developing nations. Researchers argue that online courses have been designed with the western education system and privileged the students from those countries who are familiar with this system and get the advantage of it. Researchers show that there are imbalance power authority, cross cultures and linguistic barriers in the online higher education. According to the linguistic issue, this study shows that students who are non-native English speaker sometimes fail to get desired results. Moreover, students from developing countries have been facing the advanced level of the technological problem comparing with others. These challenges create a significant inequality in online higher education which causes drop-out from online courses and losses students’ instinct motivation. This paper brings all these issues in a spotlight to address how online higher education courses deprive the students from developing nations.
