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Issues and Challenges Related to Digital Equity: An Overview

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The chapter addresses two main concerns: Digital equity for social inclusion and digital equity in education. Five dimensions of digital equity are identified: (1) access to hardware, software, and connectivity to the Internet; (2) access to meaningful, high quality, and culturally relevant content in local languages; (3) access to creating, sharing, and exchanging digital content; (4) access to educators who know how to use digital tools and resources; and (5) access to high-quality research on the application of digital technologies to enhance learning. Issues, challenges, and informed strategies are pinpointed on the basis of what digital-divide and digital-equity research says.

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  1. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Paul Resta

  2. Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada

    Thérèse Laferrière

  3. Educational Development Consortium, Waltham, MA, USA

    Robert McLaughlin

  4. Ministry of Education, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

    Assetou Kouraogo

  5. New England College, Henniker, NH, USA

    Robert McLaughlin

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Resta, P., Laferrière, T., McLaughlin, R., Kouraogo, A. (2018). Issues and Challenges Related to Digital Equity: An Overview. In: Voogt, J., Knezek, G., Christensen, R., Lai, KW. (eds) Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education . Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71054-9_67

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