Is Online Education the Disruptive Innovator Which is Required for Addressing the Digital Skills Gap’: An Assessment from a Leaner’s Perspective to Understand the Viability of Online Education as a Method of Closing the Digital Skills Gap

Rooney, Adam (2024) Is Online Education the Disruptive Innovator Which is Required for Addressing the Digital Skills Gap’: An Assessment from a Leaner’s Perspective to Understand the Viability of Online Education as a Method of Closing the Digital Skills Gap. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

As we are transitioning into a new era of digitisation society must ensure that it is done so without the widening of pre-existing social-economic divides. Therefore, ensuring equal access to reskilling and further education has never been so crucial. This study will explore, from a learner’s perspective, the perceptions, challenges, and benefits of online learning, while gauging their understanding of the digital skills gap.

If online education is perceived to hold less, or no value, in comparison to traditional classroom-based learning it will not be adopted by learners and therefore hold no value in reskilling the labour forces as it attempts to meet shortage of digitally skills workers, this research will attempt to investigate this perception. The research will also have diversity and inclusion within the digital sector as one of it’s key focus, exploring not just how to close the digital skills gap, but who will be involved in closing it.

The main outcome of this research will be to determine if online education is in fact a disruptive innovator within the educational sector and if possesses the ability to meet the growing digital skills gap. The outcome of this research project led to a final discussion and recommendations for future research in this area of study.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Supervisors:	Name Email Evans Fitzsimons, Jennifer UNSPECIFIED
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LC Special aspects / Types of education > LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education H Social Sciences > Economics > Business H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management > Diversity L Education > LC Special aspects / Types of education > E-Learning
Divisions:	School of Business > Master of Business Administration
Depositing User:	Ciara O'Brien
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2025 17:49
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2025 17:49
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/7891

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