The bandwidth issue is really important and a lot of people tend to forget about it. If you don’t live in a major metropolitan area, it’s very difficult to access bandwidth-heavy online course content. I think there have to be ways to develop online courses that are low-bandwidth and still interesting and engaging. Most of the developing world accesses the internet through mobile phones; if we want our new learning environments to reach them, we have to figure out a way to make it less resource-intensive.
The bandwidth issue is really important and a lot of people tend to forget about it. If you don’t live in a major metropolitan area, it’s very difficult to access bandwidth-heavy online course content. I think there have to be ways to develop online courses that are low-bandwidth and still interesting and engaging. Most of the developing world accesses the internet through mobile phones; if we want our new learning environments to reach them, we have to figure out a way to make it less resource-intensive.