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Digital Divide in Learning Services in Ghana’s Basic School

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For the past three years, seventeen (17) specially selected schools reflecting the urban, peri-urban and rural settlements in Ghana have been part of an on-going study; to explore the integration of ICT in schools. Findings from previous studies informed this current investigation. This paper reports a study that explored digitally divide (DD) in Learning Services (LS) in the basic schools. The results indicated that external LS informed DD in two school clusters. Digital challenges in schools have constrained the maximization of LS, resulting in few schools to display proactive transaction of external LS. There is the need for Stakeholders in education adopt a collaborative approach to tackle the issue of DD.

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  1. School of Digital Technologies, Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 29, Tallinn, 10120, Estonia

    James Sunney Quaicoe & Kai Pata

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  1. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Dickson K.W. Chiu

  2. Leibniz University of Hanover, Hannover, Germany

    Ivana Marenzi

  3. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Umberto Nanni

  4. University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France

    Marc Spaniol

  5. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Marco Temperini

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Quaicoe, J.S., Pata, K. (2016). Digital Divide in Learning Services in Ghana’s Basic School. In: Chiu, D., Marenzi, I., Nanni, U., Spaniol, M., Temperini, M. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2016. ICWL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47440-3_9

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