Digital textbooks expand learning for engineering students - South African study

By Ekaterina Rzyankina, Lecturer, Cape Peninsula University of Technology

In the past four years it’s become increasingly common for part or all of a university student’s learning to happen online. This transition to digital learning platforms has highlighted the digital divide within educational contexts.

In poorer, less resourced and connected countries like South Africa, this divide is not merely a matter of who has access to digital devices and who doesn’t. It’s also about whether students are digitally literate. This is about…

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