Rural Educational Technology: Issues to Consider for Sustainable Implementation

<p dir="ltr">This entry focuses on educational technologies appropriate for teaching and learning in rural Global South areas. These contexts are typically characterized by significant challenges including lack of access to electricity and hardware, such as computers to access learning material, and shortage of teachers with relevant training and experience with educational technologies to support teaching. Research has shown that educational technologies have the potential to compensate for the resource issues in rural schools. However, not all technological innovations would work in rural contexts due to a range of constraints in these settings, already well-documented in the literature (e.g., Bon et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_321-1#ref-CR1" target="_blank">2024</a>; Das et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_321-1#ref-CR3" target="_blank">2021</a>). Educational technologies, often based on small-scale urban studies, may not work in schools in rural Global South.</p>