Factors Affecting Chinese Higher Education Institutions' Use Of Online Learning Platforms To Significantly Increase Educational Equity

Abstract

This study investigates the factors influencing Chinese higher education institutions' use of online learning platforms to significantly increase educational equity, as well as the importance of promoting educational equity in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Quantitative methods are used in this study. The study's findings demonstrate the immediate and indirect effects of the digital divide on numerous elements of educational equity. The findings show that the digital gap has a major impact on critical educational features such as resource distribution and instructional process implementation equity. The large indirect impacts reveal a complicated relationship between the digital gap and the use of online learning platforms that is influenced by numerous factors of educational equity. This study not only improves our theoretical understanding of the role of digital education in promoting educational equity, but it also offers policymakers, educators, and technology providers practical insights. Within the larger scholarly discourse, the findings emphasize the importance of online education in reducing educational inequality. This study emphasizes the need of strategically using internet platforms in community higher education institutions.