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Lukasz Tomczyk Ed.; Francisco D. Guillén-Gámez Ed.; Julio Ruiz-Palmero Ed.; Akhmad Habibi Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2024
This book offers an expert perspective on two key phenomena in the development of the information society, namely digital inclusion and digital exclusion. Despite the intensive digitalization of various areas in human activity, the lack of proper information and communications technology (ICT) literacy, the lack of access to high-speed Internet,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Access to Computers, Inclusion, Information Technology
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Nidhi Bansal; Heena Choudhary – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
Digital literacy (DL) training improves the participants' digital skills and engagements and achieves desired online benefits and opportunities. However, there remains a gap in understanding whether the acquired skills effectively translate into tangible outcomes. This study explores how digital literacy training programs (DLTPs) serve as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Digital Literacy, Access to Computers, Computer Science Education
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Ximena Burgin; Beth Ingram – Journal of College Student Development, 2023
In spring 2020, a worldwide pandemic caused many postsecondary institutions to pivot from face-to-face to online learning for the remainder of the semester. While some institutions reverted to face-to-face teaching in fall 2020, many institutions mainly remained online. As a result, the effect of students' disparate access to enabling technology…
Descriptors: Grants, Internet, School Holding Power, Undergraduate Students
Ian Roth – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This case study explored how the digital divide in educational technology access and usage evolved due to the instructional shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The digital divide has been researched for decades, yet inequities continue to exist in the technological experiences of varying school settings. Some scholars suggested that the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disadvantaged, Access to Computers
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Libbie Farrell; Laura Hosman; Cassandra Barrett; Rachel Nova – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2024
Aim/Purpose: This article explores the critical need for adaptable educational models in times of crisis, focusing on strategies to overcome infrastructural and digital inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Background: By examining a case study of an offline digital library project implemented in South Sudan, this paper seeks to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Digital Literacy
Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, 2021
Achieving prosperity for all Americans could not be more urgent. Although the United States remains the most prosperous nation on earth, millions of citizens are losing faith in the American dream of upward mobility, and in American-style capitalism itself. This crisis of confidence has widened the divide afflicting American politics and cries out…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups
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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
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Kardefelt-Winther, Daniel; Büchi, Moritz; Twesigye, Rogers; Saeed, Marium – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed internet connectivity from an important asset to an essential piece of infrastructure. Yet two thirds of the world's school-aged children still have no fixed internet connection at home. This lack of connectivity limits their ability to go online; prevents them from participating and competing in the modern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Internet, Access to Computers
Michelle Ann Cullum – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted education systems worldwide, exacerbating longstanding educational disparities, particularly concerning technology access and utilization. This qualitative study explores amplified technology inequities in rural New Mexico education, capturing students' experiences through the lens of teachers. Using a…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Access to Computers, Internet, Technology
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Benjamin T. Skinner; Hazel Levy; Taylor Burtch – Educational Policy, 2024
Broadband is not equally accessible among students despite its increasing importance to education. We investigate the relationship between broadband and housing policy by joining two measures of broadband access with Depression-era redlining maps that classified neighborhoods based in part on racist and classist beliefs. We find that despite…
Descriptors: Internet, Telecommunications, Information Networks, Information Technology
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Aderogba, Kofo; Adeniyi, Kunle; Alabi, Bimpe – Commission for International Adult Education, 2021
There are gaps between those that are able to benefit from the internet and those who are not. There have been powerful global movements, including a series of intergovernmental summits, conducted to close the digital divide. The movements formulated solutions in public policy, technology design, finance and management that would allow all…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Adult Education, Developing Nations
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Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse – Perspectives in Education, 2022
Access to higher education has been one of the critical areas of concern in South Africa, particularly for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Corona-virus (COVID-19) pandemic has brought the systemic cleavages into sharp relief, with 'access' and subsequent 'success' emerging as an important variable. Availability of digital facilities…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Iftikhar, Aatif; Ahmed, Naeem; Shah, Saif ul Mujahid – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2023
An emergency shift to online education after COVID-19 brought many challenges for students and teachers, especially the university students living in the rural areas of Pakistan. So this study has focused on assessing the problems students faced while acquiring online education with special reference to the theoretical background of digital…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Elife Ceviker; Tuba Gezer – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2023
The outbreak of COVID-19 resulted in unprecedented school closures in education, leading online education to become "the new normal." Concurrently, emergency online instruction further exacerbated what is known as the digital divide, one of the contributing factors to inequality of educational opportunities. The purpose of our research…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2022
In spring 2022, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology (OET) committed to advancing digital equity through the Digital Equity Education Roundtables (DEER) Initiative. Through DEER, OET hosted a series of national conversations with leaders from community-based organizations, as well as families and learners furthest…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Educational Technology, Internet
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