This article focuses on Northwestern Indian College and the increase of internet use at the college. It describes how recently professors started relying on the internet to get information to their students. This is creating a problem for many of the students because they do not have access to the internet. The college is all wireless but most of the students cannot afford to have their own laptop computers and the they do not have enough computer labs for all the students at the college. Since the college did not want people to have to drop out of college because they could not access course work online, they college used a grant to purchases laptop computers that they could lone to the students. The laptop loan programs works like checking out a book, they students simply request a computer from the library and then return it when they are done using it. This program has proven succesful to help bridge the digital divide at Northwestern Indian College because the computers are available to anyone and they create another option for students to be able to connect to the interent.
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15 years ago
some college, which are located in small towns, most of their course works are not in online progress, it makes the students, who can not afford laptops, easier to access their course works. if they need, they go to computer lab and use that. as we all know every college has a wireless, computer lab and library, for me to study in small college is better than attending in big huge college or university. because you can access things much easier and school staffs are really close to you and ready to help whenever you need.
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