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Direct linkRichard Kyere Asomah; Douglas Darko Agyei; Gabriel Assamah; Kwaku Darko Amponsah – Cogent Education, 2024
The study discusses the impact of a nationwide deployment of Wi-Fi technology in some Senior High Technical Vocational Schools (SHTVs) in Ghana, using the first four levels of Guskey's framework. A stratified sampling approach was used to select 119 teachers as participants in the study. An embedded mixed method research design was employed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Vocational Education, High School Teachers
Reisdorf, Bianca C.; Yankelevich, Aleksandr; Shapiro, Mitch; Dutton, William H. – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
As many as three million households with school-aged children in the United States do not have any Internet service at home, and 18% do not have a broadband connection, creating a "homework gap" between those who can access the Internet to support their schoolwork at home, and those who cannot. Based on a series of empirical case studies…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Internet, Homework
Whitacre, Brian – Journal of Extension, 2019
In today's society, individuals and households without reliable Internet connections are increasingly at risk of facing significant disadvantages. This article describes an Extension-led pilot project in Oklahoma centered on addressing this issue through the establishment of a hotspot lending program in four rural libraries. Through the program,…
Descriptors: Program Development, Rural Areas, Public Libraries, Library Services
Goulden, Murray; Greiffenhagen, Christian; Crowcroft, Jon; McAuley, Derek; Mortier, Richard; Radenkovic, Milena; Sathiaseelan, Arjuna – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2017
Drawing on the experiences of a novel collaborative project between sociologists and computer scientists, this paper identifies a set of challenges for fieldwork that are generated by this "wild interdisciplinarity. Public Access Wi-Fi Service" was a project funded by an 'in-the-wild' research programme, involving the study of digital…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Sociology
Stack, Sue; Watson, Jane; Abbott-Chapman, Joan – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Tasmania, one of the first locations to have communities connected to the national broadband network (NBN), provided the context within which to ask significant questions about the implications of the NBN for all levels and sectors of education. This paper reports findings from a research project that developed innovative methodology to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Computer Networks, Internet
Salehi, Saeed; And Others – 1990
In many school districts throughout the country, the unplanned and inequitable distribution of computers has tended to widen the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged, male and female, and majority and minority students. One of the missions of the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) is the task of achieving equality of educational…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
