| Online education is a component of a current | | | | unsuitable. In theory, the cultural gap can be erased |
| technological society, as symbolised by developed | | | | when computers as well as internet access are as |
| western nations. Actually, it prepares students and | | | | cheap as radios or televisions, but that has not |
| employees for a culture where will be comprehensive | | | | happened yet. And it is worth thinking about the |
| interaction with computers, utilizing them for recreation | | | | double-edged weapon of online education for disabled |
| and work. But it is not example of less developed | | | | people. On one hand, courses online enable people with |
| states (even if they seem to aspire after it). And even | | | | disabilities to study much more easily as they do not |
| in western countries, there are some groups who don't | | | | need to travel to take their classes, plus there are a |
| embrace technology earnest (for example, Amish, | | | | great number of forms of assistive methods |
| native Americans) on philosophical or moral grounds. It | | | | compensating for specific disabilities. In addition to this, |
| doesn't seem great to insist on a kind of learning, which | | | | newer online courses involving graphics as well as |
| is ideologically rooted, till the students embrace that | | | | multimedia components are very frustrating and |
| ideology as well. A far worse side of the culture gap | | | | unserviceable to handicapped people. That is why |
| can be the Digital Divide. Actually, it has been well | | | | there is a situation when courses provided on the |
| reported how computers are simply accessible to the | | | | Internet could be a good boon to a big piece of the |
| "haves" (for instance, middle to upper class suburban | | | | population, but can disenfranchise them as well. So, |
| urban) and not so obtainable to the "have nots" (for | | | | when considering an online education, you should take |
| example, poor inner city/rural people). It introduces a | | | | into account this aspect too. |
| social layer to online education which is highly | | | | |