LEADER 04378nam 22005775 450 001 9910484354303321 005 20240312122533.0 010 $a9789813367388 010 $a9813367385 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-33-6738-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011746952 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6473598 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-33-6738-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011746952 100 $a20210206d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBridging the Education Divide Using Social Technologies $eExplorations in Rural India /$fby Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Arina Bardhan, Priyadarshini Dey, Sneha Bhattacharyya 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (268 pages) 311 08$a9789813367371 311 08$a9813367377 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Education Divide: Concepts and Dimensions -- Chapter 3. Education Ecosystem: A Chronological Perspective -- Chapter 4. ICT in Education -- Chapter 5. Emergence of Social Technologies: Social Meets E-Learning -- Chapter 6. A Digital Framework towards Bridging Education Divide using Social Technology -- Chapter 7. Exploring Rural-Urban Education Divide in India -- Chapter 8. Online Blended Learning Platform for Educating Underprivileged Children: Creating Active Learners using Social Technologies -- Chapter 9. Online Blended Learning Platform for Rural Adult Learners: Bridging the Opportunity Divide through Community Formation -- Chapter 10. Implementation Challenges of the Online Blended Learning Platform: An Experiential Analysis from Ecosystemic Perspective -- Chapter 11. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book explains the concept of education divide in rural India and identifies various factors that shape and sustain such a divide. In doing so, it also discusses a range of attempts undertaken to bridge the education divide. Subsequently, the book has attempted in providing a socio-technical framework towards optimally deploying social technologies for addressing the issue of education divide of marginalized communities. The proposed framework offers a transition from traditional content-centric, teacher-centric and centralized education ecosystem to a connection-centric, learner-centric and decentralized education ecosystem of the socio-digital age. It demonstrates how Internet-enabled digital platforms, based on the principles of sharism and mass collaboration using social technologies, could help to solve one of the greatest problems facing the world: mitigating the extant education divide by delivering quality education to underprivileged sections of society. The bookalso presents empirical validation of the proposed framework to show how a community-driven blended learning platform can mobilize the dormant knowledge capital of domain experts to teach underprivileged rural Indian children, as well as help form communities of practice to enable lifelong learning for the rural adult population. The book closes by pointing out the challenges involved in building an equitable education ecosystem using social technologies and ultimately the possibility of creating a fair and equitable society. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in the domain of education who want to transform education ecosystems by using technological and process-related innovations to improve educational practices for underprivileged sections of society. 606 $aEducational sociology 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aEquality 606 $aEducation 606 $aSociology of Education 606 $aSocial Structure 606 $aEducation 615 0$aEducational sociology. 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aEquality. 615 0$aEducation. 615 14$aSociology of Education. 615 24$aSocial Structure. 615 24$aEducation. 676 $a379.260954 700 $aBandyopadhyay$b Somprakash$01229504 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484354303321 996 $aBridging the education divide using social technologies$92853899 997 $aUNINA