The digital divide in online education: Inequality in digital readiness of students and schools.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has disordered the educational process across the globe, as schools suddenly had to provide their teaching in an online environment. One question that raised immediate concern is the potential impact of this forced and rapid digitalization on inequalities in the learning process by social class, migration background and gender. Elaborating on the literature on the digital divide, we study inequalities in multi-level digital readiness of students and schools before the pandemic took place. Using data from the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) on seven countries, and the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) on 45 countries, both from 2018, we demonstrate that schools and students vary in their readiness for digital education. Ho

SUBMITTER: van de Werfhorst HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9435462 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature