The Effect of Covid-19 on Education in Africa and its Implications for the Use of Technology
In May we encouraged the community to participate in the eLearning Africa / EdTech Hub Survey on Covid-19 and Education. The aim was to find…
Category: Education in Emergencies
Education, inequality and innovation in the time of COVID-19
“On 13 March 2020, during the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, JET Education Services (JET) released the special Bulletin, Extending the…
Reskilling for new livelihoods
“With world economies jolted down by COVID-19, there is a critical need to identify and develop relevant workforce skills. In India, it is reported that around…
50,000 unemployed citizens of the Commonwealth can now gain skills with COL- Coursera support
“The COL-Coursera Workforce Recovery Programme has now been scaled up to offer new skills to 50,000 unemployed citizens of the Commonwealth. Launched in May 2020,…
Emerging Technologies for Tracking COVID-19 in Higher Ed
As hope grows for a return to some semblance of normal life across the U.S., roughly 70 percent of colleges and universities plan to resume in-person —…
GIGA Connecting Every School to the Internet
“The COVID-19 outbreak has created a climate that poses a colossal threat, now and in the future, to children and their families —a grim reality…
Opinion: Reimagining education — this is the moment to think big
“When schools began shutting worldwide to combat the spread of COVID-19, a deepening global learning crisis followed. A generation of children and young people —…
UNICEF and Microsoft launch global learning platform to help address COVID-19 education crisis
NEW YORK, 20 April 2020 –UNICEF and Microsoft Corp. today announced the expansion of a global learning platform to help children and youth affected by…
AoC president Steve Frampton: the future of assessment is now
“Currently when it comes to assessment in education, the sector is, like most others, still in the dark ages, with the standard pen and paper…
Where is the Quality Assurance? Sustaining Online and Blended Learning in the post-COVID-19 Context in Africa – and Beyond
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, university campuses across Africa have been urged to shift their teaching and learning online to stem the disruption to learners caused…
Building education resilience through teacher development in The Gambia
“COL is working with partners towards building resilient education systems that will be sustainable both during a crisis and beyond. A webinar series on Pedagogies for…