2. RETHINKING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: Learning from the Learners’ Experiences of e-Learning

3. Rethinking Digital DIVIDES between: GLOBAL V LOCAL How do learners’ experiences in the developing world inform the developed world and vice-versa? INSTITUTION V INDIVIDUAL Are there advantages in learners using their own social software outside institutional VLEs? PEDAGOGY V TECHNOLOGY Do learners experience pedagogic/technological divides?

4. CONTROL V FREEDOM How do learners experience e-learning institutional controls? ACCESS V EXCLUSION How do diverse learners feel regarding access and inclusion? NARROWING V CATCHING UP Do learners perceive that digital divides are reducing/increasing? OPEN V PROPRIETARY What do learners think re. Open vs. Proprietary software issues?

5. WHAT OTHER DIGITAL DIVIDES DO YOU RECOGNISE FOR LEARNERS? How should ALT-C 2008 identify these? Come along to debate the issues!

6. Hans Rosling Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden Director of the Gapminder Foundation David Cavallo Chief Learning Architect: One Laptop per Child Head, Future of Learning Research Group, MIT Media Lab Itiel Dror Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience The University of Southampton The keynote speakers

7. No excuse for not knowing where it is!

8. Where you will be!

9. Culture ……. and shop until you drop!

10. Just like the seaside ……. but no sand and sea!

11. Book ALT-C 2008 in your diary! Leeds, UK, 9 -11 September 2008