December 15, 2005

By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti

The digital divide – a division between the Internet haves and have nots – is an enduring problem for distance education. Even though access to the Internet has become increasingly ubiquitous, it is still the wealthy, the well-educated, and the urban populations that enjoy the greatest access. But while wealthier urbanites increasingly consider anytime, anyplace access to high speed Internet a basic human need, their poorer, rural counterparts are still struggling to secure any access at all to the online world.

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