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  #1 Bonnie Sutton on 26 Oct 11

   

  http://www.pabnews.com/20541/broadband-must-increase-to-diversify-online-learning/
  
  USA - The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission spoke on the benefits which broadband can bring to rural areas, during the 2011 Wireless Ed Tech Conference (20th and 21st October). He described how the commission intends to reduce the disparity in the levels of access to education available to US citizens.
  The commission intends to retool its $8bn for telephone subsidy for landlines - the Universal Service Fund - in order to expand the number of citizens having access to high-speed internet.
  Chairman Julius Genachowski stated in his speech that Broadband, unlike several years ago, is no longer a luxury. Technology, he said, has enabled Dlearning to allow students to communicate, regardless of their location. Genachowski asked education providers and regulators to consider how they could utilise modern technology to benefit both the country and the world, placing special emphasis on the economic potential offered by comprehensive mobile broadband.
  He commented that it is widely recognised that digital literacy is necessary for people to be a part of the economy and that certain technologies give the government the chance to equalise opportunity, such as through online degrees. He also stressed that the cost of people being excluded from the digital economy is growing as time goes on, mentioning that although the US is the pride of the world in terms of its mobile broadband innovation it has several gaps in provision. For example, some 20 million Americans live in rural areas that have no Broadband access.
  Genachowski added that the USA will have to address that issue, along with the fact that there are more than 100 million Americans without Broadband access - and not because they are geographically isolated, as well as finding ways of utilising different parts of the radio spectrum, in which there is a current shortage, to deliver information.
  If the commission is able to succeed in the task which it has set itself, the results for online learning could be very productive. Fast internet has already proved how it gives access to useful education, such as by allowing students to enrol in online colleges. The results of this increase, if it materialises, will be felt not only by businesses but right across the United States through the growth in business and skills.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://www.pabnews.com/20541/broadband-must-increase-to-diversify-online-learning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.pabnews.com/20541/broadband-must-increase-to-diversify-online-learning/</a> <br /> <br /> USA - The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission spoke on the benefits which broadband can bring to rural areas, during the 2011 Wireless Ed Tech Conference (20th and 21st October). He described how the commission intends to reduce the disparity in the levels of access to education available to US citizens. <br /> The commission intends to retool its $8bn for telephone subsidy for landlines - the Universal Service Fund - in order to expand the number of citizens having access to high-speed internet. <br /> Chairman Julius Genachowski stated in his speech that Broadband, unlike several years ago, is no longer a luxury. Technology, he said, has enabled Dlearning to allow students to communicate, regardless of their location. Genachowski asked education providers and regulators to consider how they could utilise modern technology to benefit both the country and the world, placing special emphasis on the economic potential offered by comprehensive mobile broadband. <br /> He commented that it is widely recognised that digital literacy is necessary for people to be a part of the economy and that certain technologies give the government the chance to equalise opportunity, such as through online degrees. He also stressed that the cost of people being excluded from the digital economy is growing as time goes on, mentioning that although the US is the pride of the world in terms of its mobile broadband innovation it has several gaps in provision. For example, some 20 million Americans live in rural areas that have no Broadband access. <br /> Genachowski added that the USA will have to address that issue, along with the fact that there are more than 100 million Americans without Broadband access - and not because they are geographically isolated, as well as finding ways of utilising different parts of the radio spectrum, in which there is a current shortage, to deliver information. <br /> If the commission is able to succeed in the task which it has set itself, the results for online learning could be very productive. Fast internet has already proved how it gives access to useful education, such as by allowing students to enrol in online colleges. The results of this increase, if it materialises, will be felt not only by businesses but right across the United States through the growth in business and skills.</div>

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