Digital divide suppressing e-learning: Potraz

DIGITAL divide is suppressing Zimbabwean schools’ ability to offer a digitally-enhanced curriculum, with a few selected institutions in the cities successfully shifting from the orthodox educational system to electronic learning, a recent report has said.

Digital divide refers to the economic, educational and social inequalities between those who have computers and online access and those who do not have.

The resistance to accept technology has, however, also helped to widen the digital divide which has disadvantaged the education sector, especially schools located in marginalised areas, according to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) and the Research Council of Zimbabwe (RCZ) report titled: An Assessment of Digital Literacy Skills Among Secondary School Teachers Using the Digcomp Tool.

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