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 increas...
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2023
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| description | 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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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-936852023-11-20T06:12:57Z 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 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. 2023 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93685 English https://articlegateway.com/index.php/JHETP/article/view/6552 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93691 North American Business Press fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Wilson, Arthur Buckley, Amma Downing, Mandy Owen, Julie Jackson, Max The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students |
| title | The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students |
| title_full | The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students |
| title_fullStr | The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students |
| title_short | The Indigenous Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Its Impacts on Educational Delivery to First Nation University Students |
| title_sort | indigenous digital divide: covid-19 and its impacts on educational delivery to first nation university students |
| url | https://articlegateway.com/index.php/JHETP/article/view/6552 https://articlegateway.com/index.php/JHETP/article/view/6552 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93685 |