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Opportunity Gaps and the Digital Gap

Dr. Wendy Oliver provides definitions and real-world scenarios to illustrate what these opportunity gaps look like and where they are occurring in education.
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In this episode, Dr. Oliver discusses the opportunity gap, which refers to arbitrary circumstances in which people are born, as well as the digital gaps, which refers to either a lack of knowledge about using computers and/or lack of broadband internet access. She provides definitions, examples and real-world scenarios to illustrate what these disparities look like and where they are occurring in education. Wendy also refers back to a recent interview with online educator and author Courtney Ostaff, whose experience teaching online in rural areas over the past two decades has led to many valuable insights. 

 

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