Technology has the potential to create opportunities, including within education. Students can learn, collaborate, research, and independently acquire knowledge from the Internet and other ...

Our society relies on the internet for education, jobs, and personal needs, yet our country’s digital divide has been an ongoing issue, affecting the 14.5 million Americans who don’t have access to ...

The latest iteration of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) takes aim at several obstacles limiting edtech’s ability to transform teaching and learning.

More than two years ago, educators around the country began to engage in dialogue regarding the digital divide, as they recognized the reality that many students did not have access and connectivity ...

With Internet connectivity now viewed as a public necessity for telework and education, universities across the U.S. are partnering with local governments and community organizations on initiatives to ...

Kiara Taylor has worked as a financial analyst for more than a decade. Her career has involved a number of financial firms, including Fifth Third Bank, JPMorgan, and Citibank. She has filled a number ...

The nonprofit Digitunity, whose target is the digital divide, recently concluded a 10-city initiative that provided thousands of devices to families for online learning, as well as digital literacy ...

The “digital divide,” the gap between those who have access to computers and the internet and those who do not, has been with us for decades and has seemed intractable. But as we begin a new year, I’m ...

Gen X got information about college from dense guidebooks. Millennials got its information from Google and college websites.

This article is part of the collection: Equitable Access to Education: Global Efforts to Close the Gap. Despite the promise of digital technologies, not all communities around the world have the ...

NEW YORK, April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- There is a global digital divide, threatening to leave entire generations of women and girls behind. Today, we place them at the centre of our shared massive ...

Universities are going into the 2021-22 academic year with a greater capacity to deliver online and hybrid teaching than 12 months ago. But just as existing digital divides presented complex teaching ...