Making the connection: Allowing access to digital higher education in a correctional environment

Helen Farley; John Macdonald; Susan Hopkins; Sharron Dove; Catherine Abraham; Jacinta Cox; Stephen Seymour; Chris Lee; Louise Patching

doi:10.14742/apubs.2015.942

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Making the connection: Allowing access to digital higher education in a correctional environment

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Making the connection: Allowing access to digital higher education in a correctional environment

Helen Farley, John Macdonald, Susan Hopkins, Sharron Dove, Catherine Abraham, Jacinta Cox, Stephen Seymour, Chris Lee and Louise Patching

Proceedings of ASCILITE 2015, pp.434-439

Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Conference, 32nd (Perth, Australia, 29-Nov-2015–02-Dec-2015)

Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14742/apubs.2015.942

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Abstract

Correctional education

Digital divide

Digital equity

Digital inclusion

Higher education

In most Australian correctional jurisdictions, prisoners are not allowed access to the internet precluding them from participating in higher education online. This paper reports on an Australian government-funded project, Making the Connection, which is taking digital technologies, that don’t require internet access, into correctional centres to enable prisoners to enroll in a suite of pre-tertiary and undergraduate programs. A version of the University of Southern Queensland’s learning management system has been installed onto the education server of participating correctional centres. The second stage of the project will see notebook computers preloaded with course materials, allocated to participating prisoners. At the time of writing, the project has been deployed at eight correctional centres in Queensland and Western Australia, with negotiations underway for further rollout to Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. It is expected that the technologies and processes developed for this project will enable the delivery of higher education to other cohorts without access to reliable internet access.

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Title: Making the connection: Allowing access to digital higher education in a correctional environment
Authors: Helen Farley - University of Southern Queensland
John Macdonald - University of Southern Queensland
Susan Hopkins - University of Southern Queensland
Sharron Dove - University of Southern Queensland
Catherine Abraham - University of Southern Queensland
Jacinta Cox - University of Southern Queensland
Stephen Seymour - University of Southern Queensland
Chris Lee - University of Southern Queensland
Louise Patching - University of Southern Queensland
Publication details: Proceedings of ASCILITE 2015, pp.434-439
Conference details: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Conference, 32nd (Perth, Australia, 29-Nov-2015–02-Dec-2015)
Publisher: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
Date published: 2015
DOI: 10.14742/apubs.2015.942
Copyright note: The author(s) assign a Creative Commons by attribution licence enabling others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon their work, even commercially, as long as credit is given to the author(s) for the original creation.
Organisation Unit: School of Education and Tertiary Access
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991135204902621
Output Type: Conference paper

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