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PROBLEM STATEMENT
Student feedback reports:
“the
unfamiliarity of technology comes up again
and again
…”
(Glover, 2012).
Internet penetration: 10.6% in South African rural areas and 27.8% in urban
areas (Stat SA, 2015).
Limited studies address university students from rural backgrounds in terms
of their technological literacies (Czerniewicz & Brown , 2014).
A rural background may have negative impact but at the same time
preparedness of institutions to accommodate such students is sometimes
questionable (REAP, 2008:6, in Brits et al., 2015).
The problem is that technological transitions are often ignored by
universities as most assume that all students have background knowledge
or experience with technological devices.