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The disconnected: COVID-19 and disparities in access to quality broadband for higher education students
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education ( IF 7.611 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 , DOI: 10.1186/s41239-021-00262-1
John Cullinan 1 , Darragh Flannery 2 , Jason Harold 1 , Seán Lyons 3 , Dónal Palcic 2
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced many higher education institutions (HEIs) across the world to cancel face-to-face teaching, close campus facilities, and displace staff and students to work and learn from home. Given the persistent nature of the pandemic, many HEIs have continued to deliver courses online and/or use a blended learning approach. However, there are concerns around differences in student access to digital learning resources while at home, including high quality broadband connectivity. This is important, since variation in connectivity may impact the type of online/blended model that faculty can deliver or constrain student engagement with online content. In this context, this paper combines national data on the domiciles of students enrolled in Irish HEIs with detailed spatial data on broadband coverage to estimate the number of higher education students ‘at risk’ of poor access to high quality internet connectivity. Overall it finds that one-in-six students come from areas with poor broadband coverage, with large disparities by geography and by HEI. It also finds that students from the poorest broadband coverage areas are more likely to be socioeconomically disadvantaged. As a result, this paper recommends that HEIs use their detailed registration data to help identify and support at-risk students. In particular, the results suggest that some HEIs may need to prioritise access to campus facilities and services to less well-off students living in poor broadband coverage areas.



中文翻译:

断开连接:COVID-19 和高等教育学生在获得优质宽带方面的差异

COVID-19 大流行迫使世界各地的许多高等教育机构 (HEIs) 取消面对面教学,关闭校园设施,并让教职员工和学生在家工作和学习。鉴于大流行的持续性,许多高等教育机构继续在线提供课程和/或使用混合学习方法。然而,人们担心学生在家中访问数字学习资源的差异,包括高质量的宽带连接。这很重要,因为连接的变化可能会影响教师可以提供或限制学生参与在线内容的在线/混合模型的类型。在这种情况下,本文将爱尔兰高等教育机构注册学生的国家数据与宽带覆盖率的详细空间数据相结合,以估计高等教育学生的数量“面临”难以获得高质量互联网连接的风险。总体而言,它发现六分之一的学生来自宽带覆盖较差的地区,地理和高等教育之间的差异很大。它还发现,来自宽带覆盖最差地区的学生更有可能在社会经济上处于不利地位。因此,本文建议高等教育机构使用其详细的注册数据来帮助识别和支持高危学生。特别是,结果表明,一些高等教育机构可能需要优先为生活在宽带覆盖范围较弱地区的不太富裕的学生提供校园设施和服务的使用权。

更新日期:2021-05-22
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