Internet access and its role on educational inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic

Korkmaz, Özge; Erer, Elif; Erer, Deniz

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102353

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“…This study found that while internet access and cost negatively influence the overall students’ satisfaction, the acquisition of self-confidence positively influences students’ satisfaction with online learning. This is not surprising since internet connection serves as a critical infrastructural component of e-learning or mobile learning approaches ( Delnoij et al, 2020 ; Korkmaz et al, 2022 ) but appears to be less accessible and more expensive in developing countries, including Kenya, where only about 35% of the population has access to the Internet ( World Bank, 2022 ). Other reports indicate that a decent internet connection, which is essential for many basic tasks in the COVID-19 era, is out of reach for 90% of people in low-and middle-income countries ( Okoth, 2022 ) and high cost of Internet access remains one of the main barriers to the use of information and communication technology services worldwide ( Barton, 2021 ).…”

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The effect of students’ online learning experience on their satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of preference

Odhiambo

Ocansey

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionDuring the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly all educational institutions globally had to eventually embrace the maneuver of transferring to nearly 100% online learning as a new routine for different curricula. Although many students in developing countries such as Kenya are only experiencing the exclusive online learning approach for the first time, research on students’ experience and satisfaction with COVID-19-imposed online learning is largely lacking. Thus, this study examined the effect of online-learning experiences on satisfaction in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya. The mediating role of students’ preference on the relationship between online-learning experience and satisfaction was also examined.MethodsA web-based survey involving 501 respondents was analyzed using IBM® SPSS® and AMOS software platforms. A structural equation model (SEM) was used to analyze the relationships.Results and DiscussionResults showed that 80% of participants indicated their preference for in-person learning as against 20% for online learning. Students’ satisfaction-SS had a significant positive correlation with online classroom perceived quality-OCPQ, acquisition of self-confidence-ASC, teaching performance and engagement-TPE, and preference for online learning-POL but a negative correlation with internet access and cost-IAC. Moreover, while POL positively correlated with OCPQ, ASC, and TPE, it negatively correlated with IAC. Both the structural model for the main effect and the mediation model provided a good fit and confirmed these relationships. Student preference had a significant effect on satisfaction and played a significant mediating role in the relationship between online-learning experience and satisfaction. These findings shed light on the underlying factors that explain students’ online learning satisfaction and provide guidelines for universities and policymakers to make better decisions that enhance students’ online-learning experience and satisfaction.

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The effect of students’ online learning experience on their satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of preference

Odhiambo

Ocansey

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…Huggins and Thompson (45) argued that the pandemic is likely to heighten rather than slow down the trend that more spatially distributed patterns of entrepreneurial innovation are emerging across a wider range of cities and regions. Korkmaz et al (46) revealed that the response to the pandemic had caused education inequalities across regions. Dannenberg et al (47) believed that the increase in online trade which was led by the pandemic has changed the trend of the spatial economics of innovation.…”

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“Crisis” or “opportunity”? COVID-19 pandemic's impact on environmentally sound invention efficiency in China

Wei

Liu

Lin

2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionThe environmentally sound invention (ESI) is a “bridge” between environmental sound technologies (ESTs) and green productions. This study investigates the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on ESI efficiency using a multi-methods model in three stages.MethodsThe ESI efficiency is measured using the Slack-Based Measure (SBM) method in the first stage. By excluding the environmental effect of the pandemic on each province using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model's results in the second stage, this study compares the ESI efficiency change with or without the influence of the pandemic in the third stage.ResultsThe results show that the pandemic can be a “crisis” in the short term, but an “opportunity” in the long term. First, the SBM efficiency results in the first stage show a decrease in the number of the average efficient provinces in which the pandemic is more severe during 2020-2021. Second, results of the spatial Tobit and SFA models provide evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacts the ESI efficiency during 2020, this impact is decreasing in 2021, and this impact has a spatial diffusion effect.DiscussionBased on these results, this study discussed the theoretical and political implications. This paper enriches the knowledge of ESTs research and development by proposing a three-stage approach with multi-methods to investigate the influence of the pandemic's impact on ESI efficiency.

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“…Указанный аспект исследуется с разных точек зрения уже в междисциплинарном поле, что отражается в новых исследовательских подходах и соответствующей проблематике . Например, в центр экспертных интересов попадают «гендерный/этнический цифровой разрыв», связь с электронным правительством, демократией, грамотностью в вопросах здоровья и социальной интеграции [Korkmaz, Erer, Erer, 2022] .…”

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“…Неравенство возможностей доступа к цифровым технологиям и их использованию можно рассматривать как результат исключения и маргинализации, если сосредоточить внимание на характеристиках пользователей ИКТ . В то же время само цифровое неравенство является фактором изоляции, поскольку отсутствие доступа к ИКТ ограничивает возможности пользователей повышать свой социальный статус [Korkmaz, Erer, Erer, 2022] . Сходная аргументация прослеживается и в работе [LeTourneau, 2020], где доказывается, что изоляция, наряду с физической дистанцией, включает в себя отсутствие и низкое качество жизненно важной инфраструктуры, сетей связи, а также медицинских учреждений .…”

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Sharing digital infrastructure use by mobile providers: Investment solutions for sparsely populated territories of the Russian Federation

Midler¹,

Аренков²,

Sharifyanov³

2022

RMJ

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The article considers a mechanism of managerial strategic decisions development aimed at overcoming the digital divide in the elaboration of Russian regions through the formation and use of telecommunications infrastructure in small towns. The regions of the Arctic with absence or underrepresented digital infrastructure are selected as the object of study. Understood as a system of interaction between organizational and telecommunication subsystems, it is considered as a management tool to ensure equable functioning and development of the information space. For the purposes of this study, attention is focused on the study of its main component - mobile communication networks. The study resulted in a model for planning investment decisions based on the development of hybrid financing of telecommunications projects through the sharing of digital infrastructure by mobile communication providers. The article substantiates the approach based on planning strategies for joint activities of investors — mobile operators, which allows reducing the burden on the state budget and attracting private capital to the development of a sparsely populated area. As the main method of research, the method of grouping the population according to the density of settlement is used. On the game theorybasis, strategies for joint planning and network behavior of investors are determined, eliminating digital gaps and disproportions in the development of Russian localities and regions as a whole. It is concluded that partnership as a management tool, especially, planning the development of digital infrastructure in small towns, is the most effective way to reduce investment risks for all parties, and its adaptation to the specifics of territories is a key task of management in the field of information and communication technologies.

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Internet access and its role on educational inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 30 publications

References 51 publications

The effect of students’ online learning experience on their satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of preference

The effect of students’ online learning experience on their satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of preference

“Crisis” or “opportunity”? COVID-19 pandemic's impact on environmentally sound invention efficiency in China

Sharing digital infrastructure use by mobile providers: Investment solutions for sparsely populated territories of the Russian Federation

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