Equality in education: The digital divide

Bridging the Digital Divide in Higher Education

Making the educational experience inclusive of people with disabilities has benefits for all learners. Modifications and enhancements intended for learners with sensory, physical or learning disabilities often make the learning environment more flexible and engaging for students without disabilities. This paper will present several initiatives that promote inclusive teaching and learning, but a...

Wireless Technologies Bridging the Digital Divide in Education

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how the latest wireless standards and technologies may overcome the digital divide in education in the developed and developing worlds. The concept of the digital divide is discussed in the traditional socio-economic sense and expanded in terms of the learner's location, age, culture and background. It is important that we understand the full extent...

The Digital Divide in Health Education: Myth or Reality?

Although e-health interventions provide new opportunities for health education, there has been cause for concern regarding the purported information technology gap between those who have access to digital applications and those who do not—termed the “digital divide.” The literature suggests, however, that this divide may now be illusory, driven primarily by a myriad of societal divides such as ...

The Digital Divide Within Formal School Education: Causes and Consequences

Although schools in most industrialised countries have taken strong measures to ensure equal access to ICT resources, inequalities continue to exist. To understand what measures might be effective for eliminating these remaining differences, it is necessary to partition the problem into at least three classes. In the first, here called the missing link, are students with specific disabilities a...

The Digital Divide and Its Influence on Public Education Diffusion