Universal Access The universal access goal goes beyond students and teachers. Universal access holds that learning can and should be supported through the richness of networked technologies in schools and wherever learning occurs—libraries, museums, community centers, and the home. Many believe that true universal access will provide equal learning opportunities for all students—or at least equal access to learning resources. Indeed, some suggest that providing all students and teachers with access to technology resources, perhaps through the use of low-cost portable computers, can support major paradigm shift in the way computers are used in schools, a shift described as early as 1980 by Seymour Papert. 3