Identifying Barriers Encountered by Women in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Open and Distance Learning in the Caribbean: Summary Report

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col.proceedings.confIdentifying Barriers Encountered by Women in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Open and Distance Learning in the Caribbeanen_US
col.proceedings.confdate24-Nov-99en_US
col.proceedings.confplaceBarbadosen_US
col.proceedings.confsponCommonwealth of Learningen_US
col.regionCaribbean and Americasen_US
dc.contributor.corporateCommonwealth of Learningen_US
dc.coverage.placeNameBarbadosen_US
dc.coverage.placeNameBelizeen_US
dc.coverage.placeNameDominicaen_US
dc.coverage.placeNameGuyanaen_US
dc.coverage.placeNameJamaicaen_US
dc.coverage.placeNameTrinidad and Tobagoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-17T20:02:04Z
dc.date.available2015-01-17T20:02:04Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractOpen and distance learning methodologies help girls and women overcome some of the challenges they face in attaining education when the only opportunities available to them are provided through conventional means. With the onslaught of the new information and communications technologies (ICTs) to deliver open and distance learning, however, it is feared that this trend may be reversed and that women may become marginalised in accessing distance education due to issues relating to the use of these technologies. Further, the influx of the new technologies may have an impact on the staff employed to work in distance learning environments. If women are disadvantaged in accessing and using the new technologies, this may influence the type of positions for which they are employeden_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11599/144
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCommonwealth of Learning, Vancouveren_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0en_US
dc.subjectWomen and ICTen_US
dc.subject.otherOpen and Distance Learning (ODL)en_US
dc.titleIdentifying Barriers Encountered by Women in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Open and Distance Learning in the Caribbean: Summary Reporten_US
dc.typeReporten_US
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