PhD Student

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jigsaw
the puzzle of e-learning putting it together
and taking it apart

• PhD Student
• Annika Andersson
• Informatics/ ESI, Örebro
• University, Sweden
• annika.andersson_at_esi.oru.se

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e-Learning carries the greatest potential to
train masses in the developing world in anything
and everything e-Learning can and will
revolutionize learning in the Southern
Hemisphere
E-learning will raise the number of students who
have access to higher education by being a
cheaper and more flexible alternative and it also
had the ability of reaching marginalised groups
in rural areas
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Thesis theme Inhibiting and facilitating factors
for e-learning in developing countriesCase
studies eBIT Sri Lanka and Bangladesh Virtual
Classroom
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The literature study

• Which are the inhibiting and facilitating factors
  that have an affect on e-learning?
• Which of these factors are of specific importance
  for developing countries?
• Contribution a conceptual framework on factors
  that contributes to enrolment and completion of
  e-learning courses in developing countries.

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Putting the pieces together
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I do not have enough money to buy a computer or
access the Internet
having three kids you have to count on being
interrupted now and then, but I study the moments
when its most peaceful and quiet
I would prefer better economic prerequisites
My mother-in-law cant understand why Im going
on studying. She keeps saying that I want to
overrule her son (my husband). Once I am at home
I have to turn off from studies.
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.and tearing it apart

• Using Grounded Theory (interviews and letters)
• Position findings/theory to structuration theory
  or ANT?
• Selected themes Student support functions,
  e-learning pedagogics and

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In deep water?

• Arguing for a holistic approach but still just
  focusing on a few factors
• Categorizing and looking for differences between
  developed and developing countries I am
  extremely unhappy with this terminology
• What will be my overall contribution?