The Challenge of Online Education to Educational Equity and its Solving Strategies

Abstract

As an emerging form of education, online education provides learners with more flexible and extensive learning opportunities, but it also brings a challenge to educational equity. Under the influence of resource allocation, regional differences and technological gap, learners' access to high-quality educational resources is unbalanced. To solve this problem, we need to start from multiple levels. The government should increase the investment in online education resources and formulate relevant policies to ensure educational equity. Online education platforms should improve the openness of educational resources and use advanced technologies to narrow the educational gap between regions. Teachers and educational institutions need to constantly improve the quality of teaching and cultivate learners' independent learning and collaborative learning abilities to adapt to the characteristics of online education. Only with the joint efforts of all parties can we truly realize the universal benefit of online education and promote educational equity.