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E-inclusion
What is the experience of using e-books by inmates in a prison context like? Posed with this question, the UOC and Can Brians Prison carried out a pilot study in which female inmates club book users at the prison’s library read a novel using iLiad devices. 6 e-books were lent to Can Brians’ prison library at the women’s unit, and after 3 months of a pilot study, a focus group was carried out in order to gather their thoughts about their experience. We talked about their reading habits, previous experience of using ICT, and general experience of using an e-book (advantages and disadvantages, main difficulties, and so on). The most relevant conclusions were:
- E-book and content design should be sufficiently appealing in a context where the senses are limited, in order to opt for an e-ink device instead of a paper book.
- Inmates consider that learning content and other didactic content such as Wikipedia, dictionaries and pseudo-scientific journals (History, Quo…) are the most suitable content for e-books.
- Using e-books and other types of ICT devices at a prison can help inmates not to be excluded from the technological world that are prevalent in our society.
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%CODE1%The LT Office invited to the Learning Without Frontiers event
The LT Office has been invited to “Learning Without Frontiers (LWF)”; an international event which is known to be the ‘Davos’ of the global education industry. The LWF brings together international thought leaders, policy makers and innovators from the education, technology and entertainment sectors to connect and engage in a new dialogue about the future of learning. Recognising how affordable and disruptive technologies challenge traditional approaches to industrial scale education, the LWF community has taken a globally respected position of leadership in the use of mobile, gaming, social media, open source and other digital platforms to support learning. The discussion, however, is not about technology but how society is changing in the digital age and how our approach and platforms for learning reflect, embrace and respond to those changes. The event will take place on January 25th and 26th in London and the UOC will share the scenario with thought leaders/opinion leaders such as Noam Chomsky or Sir Ken Robinson.
