The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students
The global COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that the delivery of online education inadvertently disadvantaged Indigenous Australian university students. This situation was particularly critical for Indigenous students from rural and remote locations. Australian universities increased the use of digital...
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ftcurtin:oai:espace.curtin.edu.au:20.500.11937/93685 2023-12-17T10:30:14+01:00 The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students Wilson, Arthur Buckley, Amma Downing, Mandy Owen, Julie Jackson, Max 2023 fulltext https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93685 English eng North American Business Press https://articlegateway.com/index.php/JHETP/article/view/6552 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93691 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93685 Journal Article 2023 ftcurtin https://doi.org/20.500.11937/93685 2023-11-20T23:20:05Z The global COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that the delivery of online education inadvertently disadvantaged Indigenous Australian university students. This situation was particularly critical for Indigenous students from rural and remote locations. Australian universities increased the use of digital technologies to engage, support and teach due to students’inability to access campuses. This presented universities with challenges in supporting Indigenous students living in and returning to non-urban settings. Due to COVID, the need for better strategies and plans for Indigenous students returning to their rural or remote community to continue their studies is often not recognized. These communities often lack suitable infrastructure to access pedagogical and learning support opportunities. This paper explores how the business decision made by Australian universities to increase reliance on teaching online during COVID impacted the education of Indigenous students. This paper will then canvas ways this ongoing dilemma can be addressed by considering risks, measuring and monitoring performance to guide transformation, including universities’more inclusive and respectful use of digital technologies involving First Nations people and cultures. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Curtin University: espace |
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The global COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that the delivery of online education inadvertently disadvantaged Indigenous Australian university students. This situation was particularly critical for Indigenous students from rural and remote locations. Australian universities increased the use of digital technologies to engage, support and teach due to students’inability to access campuses. This presented universities with challenges in supporting Indigenous students living in and returning to non-urban settings. Due to COVID, the need for better strategies and plans for Indigenous students returning to their rural or remote community to continue their studies is often not recognized. These communities often lack suitable infrastructure to access pedagogical and learning support opportunities. This paper explores how the business decision made by Australian universities to increase reliance on teaching online during COVID impacted the education of Indigenous students. This paper will then canvas ways this ongoing dilemma can be addressed by considering risks, measuring and monitoring performance to guide transformation, including universities’more inclusive and respectful use of digital technologies involving First Nations people and cultures. |
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The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students |
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The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students |
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The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students |
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The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students |
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indigenous digital divide: covid-19 and its impacts on educational delivery to first nation university students |
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North American Business Press |
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