Internet Policy and Connectivity Challenges for Students in a Ghanaian University.
At the 2024 ALA conference, the authors presented their exploration of the internet access challenges faced by graduate students at a STEM university in Ghana. This research highlighted how unreliable, expensive, and intermittent internet affects academic life, particularly for students off-campus....
| Publicado en: | Portal: Libraries & the Academy Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 55 - 66 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Jan2025
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