Nontraditional students often enroll at institutions of higher learning without the technology skills needed to complete coursework and achieve academic success. The problem at a small community college in the Southern United States is that instructors are providing limited support for nontraditional students using technology, which may leave…

This paper uses U.S. data from the Survey of Adult Skills (otherwise known as PIAAC) to explore a digital inclusion pathway leading from digital access to digital literacy. The pathway consists of four observable stages in the data: Digital Access, Digital Taste, Digital Readiness, and Digital Literacy. In looking at this inclusion, particular…