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The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic
In recent years, online learning in the education sector has increasingly become prominent. While many believe that online learning has the potential to reduce inequity, the debate on whether it bridges the gap or widens it continues to persist. This study examined equity issues in online learning i...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9468296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36118102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102122 |
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description | In recent years, online learning in the education sector has increasingly become prominent. While many believe that online learning has the potential to reduce inequity, the debate on whether it bridges the gap or widens it continues to persist. This study examined equity issues in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study used data from the Online Learning Survey of High School Students in China to analyze the influencing factors of the first, second, and third-level digital divide. The study found that the digital divide existed in online learning during the pandemic. It was primarily presented as differences in equipment quantity and network quality, students’ adaptability to online teaching, and their offline learning outcomes. These findings suggest that the development of online learning alone cannot eliminate achievement gaps. The promotion of education equity requires efforts from various stakeholders and interventions specifically targeting disadvantaged students. |
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spelling | pubmed-94682962022-09-13 The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic Guo, Congbin Wan, Boshen Technol Soc Article In recent years, online learning in the education sector has increasingly become prominent. While many believe that online learning has the potential to reduce inequity, the debate on whether it bridges the gap or widens it continues to persist. This study examined equity issues in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study used data from the Online Learning Survey of High School Students in China to analyze the influencing factors of the first, second, and third-level digital divide. The study found that the digital divide existed in online learning during the pandemic. It was primarily presented as differences in equipment quantity and network quality, students’ adaptability to online teaching, and their offline learning outcomes. These findings suggest that the development of online learning alone cannot eliminate achievement gaps. The promotion of education equity requires efforts from various stakeholders and interventions specifically targeting disadvantaged students. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-11 2022-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9468296/ /pubmed/36118102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102122 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Guo, Congbin Wan, Boshen The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | digital divide in online learning in china during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9468296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36118102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102122 |
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