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For our major project for LRNT526<\/a> in the RRU MALAT Program<\/a>, our team initially expressed an interest in our critical reflective topic, the digital divide, and then worked backward to identify our delivery technology and learning event. While we are all familiar with the digital divide, we decided to pursue a learning event that discussed the digital divide in greater detail to create a shared understanding of concepts, terminology, and themes. To this end, we enrolled in The Digital Divide<\/a><\/em> online course offered through Coursera as part of the Goodwill Digital Navigator Certificate Specialization<\/a>. As all members of our team are interested in evaluating this technology through the lens of the digital divide, we each chose different facets through which we could produce a comprehensive, critical academic analysis. For my part of the team presentation and critical reflective academic paper, I chose the commercialisation of digital education and how it intersects with the digital divide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Framing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While the online course The Digital Divide<\/em> is interesting and provides some insights, it does not offer university-level academic rigor or depth. To apply a more effective analytical basis, Allie<\/a> shared a 2022 literature review by Lythreatis et al., which proposes a progressively layered and inter-affecting framework for categorizing factors contributing to the digital divide. For my topic, commercialisation of education likely contributes to the digital divide at levels two, three, and the theoretical fourth layer posited in the paper. In addition to this framework, I intend to apply an ethical lens from Sriphrikash et al.\u2019s 2024 paper on sociodigital futures of education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas of investigation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Areas that I am currently investigating include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n