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Bridging the educational divide

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The sharpest visible divide in Internet utilisation, which has deepened in recent years, is an educational one. Especially with regard to the learning disabled, the educational digital divide requires the improvement of inclusive didactical measures to promote media competence. A major prerequisite, which as a basic architectural principle determines systems design, in this respect demands support of “evolutionary learning” by tutorial learning systems designed as guidance systems which accord closely with the individual pupil’s evolutionary process.

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology – FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven , 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    M. Pieper & H. Morasch

  2. Gutenberg School for the Learning Disabled, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    G. Piéla

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Pieper, M., Morasch, H. & Piéla, G. Bridging the educational divide. UAIS 2, 243–254 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-003-0061-y

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