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Covid-era Education Tech Narrowed College Learning Gap for Poor, Minorities
By Christos Andreas Makridis, Zenger News
On 5/6/21 at 3:44 PM EDT
As laptop screens have taken the place of university lecture halls a $200 billion education technology boom has sparked a tug-of-war, with professors and union leaders opposing software entrepreneurs and budget-conscious lawmakers. And data shows that when the techies win, America s college learning gap narrows for poor and minority students.
Education technology, also known as edtech, delivers lessons less expensively than in-person instruction, amounting to a roughly 80 percent decline in per-student cost, according to a study published in Science Advances, a peer-reviewed journal. Adult students, military personnel, foreign students stranded by the pandemic have also found new learning opportunities.