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Access to Computing for Home-Based Students.
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Kirkwood, Adrian; Kirkup, Gill – Studies in Higher Education, 1991
Evaluation of the impact of a policy of Great Britain's Open University requiring students in specified courses to have access to a microcomputer found that preexisting differences in the student body affecting access (particularly gender, income, and geographical location) were magnified by the need to use computers. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Policy