Abstract
Education has always been a challenge, today even more so given the difficulties of the moment, to support school in the time of COVID-19. Schools at every level have reorganized the training offer, implementing technological solutions. All this has raised a problem: the division is no longer between those who have access to the network and those who do not, but between those who know and those who do not know these new tools. Lately the concept of digital divide, understood as a gap of opportunity between those who have and those who do not have digital skills, has evolved into the concept of digital inequality. Given these premises, the work investigates after careful analysis, the impact of digital systems on the educational system, such as the emergence of the “digital divide,” impacts on training within universities. To verify the “digital divide,” the work proposes a quantitative survey carried out through a questionnaire submitted to a sample of students. The subject of the survey is given by the students of the University of Calabria.
TopLiterature Review
The advent of the pandemic on a global level has led to a systemic revolution in different sectors, including education, paving the way for a new way of teaching. The world of education has fully opened up to the digital world and technology; this has allowed the academic activity not to suffer slowdowns and/or sudden braking, but to continue in its educational and cultural activities, ensuring a more innovative use.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Technological Innovation: The evolution, growth, and improvement of technical and scientific knowledge suitable for the creation of products, services and technologies.
Digital Divide: Inequality exists between those who have access to information technologies (also in terms of skills) and those who are totally or partially excluded.
Intelligent Technology: Is various approach and means which use knowledge to reach concrete purpose in efficiency.
E-Learning: Use of digital technologies for distance learning through the aid of an internet connection.
Digitization: Business operations and activities carried out with the aid of digital tools.
Platform: IT structure responsible for the provision of technological tools and services for the distribution of digital services, free or paid.
Innovation: Success of innovative and creative ideas that have introduced something new and useful.
Digital Learning: Is any type of learning that is accompanied by technology or by instructional practice that makes effective use of technology.
Technology: Application and study of everything that can be functional to the resolution of practical problems and business strategies to achieve a goal.