Bridging the Digital Divide in Education:International Responses and Current Challenges
At the global level,the digital divide is widening,posing threats and challenges to educational equity in terms of access,competencies and achievement.Recognizing the complex and multidimensional nature of the digital divide,international organizations and governments have taken a number of initiatives,including establishing digital strategies to provide high-level planning and fundamental guarantees to bridge the digital divide;steadily reducing the access divide by improving the accessibility and affordability of digital infrastructures;treating digital resources as public goods and creating open and inclusive high-quality digital educational content;reducing the skills divide and strengthening the training and assessment of students'digital literacy;and promoting global governance of the digital divide,with international organizations as the driving force.Although it has already achieved notable results,the global governance of the digital divide continues to face multiple challenges,including a lack of funding to bridge the access divide,the possibility that public digital learning generates new digital hegemony and risks,the dual structural contradictions that impede global governance of the digital divide and the fact that the governance of the digital divide needs to be linked to that of the social divide.
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