Distance Learning
Has Covid-19 sparked a new dawn for distance learning?
An estimated 1.5 billion students across 160 countries worldwide have been forced to study at home during the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, participation in digital distance learning (DDL) has increased exponentially in many forms, including virtual classrooms, learning platforms, social media, online repositories, online assessment, webinars, and recorded video lessons.
Covid-19 achieved, in a few months, something that many people have been advocating for years: a larger role for DDL within the education sector. The European Training Foundation (ETF) recently carried out a closer examination of the situation, mapping the education and training responses to the health crisis across 27 education systems in eastern Europe, Turkey and central Asia.