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…

The current and projected influx of older adult learners over 50 years of age implies the need to revisit lenses in which they are perceived and their academic needs. Though there are several support services to assist with physiological, socioeconomical, emotional, and cognitive hindrances, accessibility to these services continues to be the…

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…