Tag: Digital learning

Enjoyment or employment: Third Millennium education’s paramount objective

by Mike Douse | Aug 5, 2024 | Learning

More and more, across the world, education is being geared to employment. The workplace is rapidly colonising the classroom. Enjoyment is being outlawed in favour of relevance. Read More

Unraveling the Digital Literacy Skills and Knowledge Gap in Ghana’s Higher Education: Listening to Undergraduate Students’ Voices

by Jacob Oppong Nkansah | Nov 16, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Skills

Stakeholders in higher education are coming to see the value of promoting digital literacy among students. Read More

History and power in global organisations’ digital development projects with COVID

by Choah Park | Oct 26, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Critique

COVID has been portrayed as a disruptive crisis event leading to the inevitable transition to the digitalisation of society. Digital technologies employed during school closures have been promoted as solutions to educational problems and to education reforms for the future. Global organisations including UNESCO, the OECD, and the World Bank… Read More

Examining the Reality of Online Education in India

by Jyoti Seth | Jun 4, 2021 | COVID-19, Learning

This blog was written by Jyoti Seth (a primary school teacher in India). The challenging school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic provided parents with an insight into online...

Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Speed a Global Embrace of Online Learning?

by Mary Burns and Peter Orne | Mar 31, 2021 | Learning

This blog was written by Mary Burns, Education Development Center, and Peter Orne, a Boston-based communications consultant and former Editorial Director of the Wireless Internet...

COVID has cast a dark cloud on education, but there are some silver linings

by Mary Burns | Dec 9, 2020 | COVID-19, Learning

This blog was written by Mary Burns, Education Development Center. It was originally published on the K-12 Talk website on 2 December 2020. With large-scale school shutdowns, the...

How Government Can Support Learning During School Closures in Nigeria: No More Missed Opportunities

by Margaret Ebubedike | Sep 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Learning

This blog was written by Dr Margaret Ebubedike, Post-doc Research Associate at the Open University. The global pandemic will significantly back-track all global efforts on the...

How can digital formative assessment help monitor student learning during and after the COVID-19 era?

by Le Thu Huong and Yee Ki Au | Sep 23, 2020 | Assessment, COVID-19

This blog was written by Le Thu Huong and Yee Ki Au. Le Thu Huong is a Programme Specialist at the Section of Education Policy, UNESCO. She leads the System Alignment for Better...

Covid-19 and Transformation of ‘The School’

by Mike Douse and Philip Uys | Sep 21, 2020 | COVID-19

This NORRAG Highlights, published on 2 September, is contributed by Mike Douse (Freelance International Educational Consultant) and Philip Uys (Adjunct Associate Professor of...

Responding to COVID-19 in the Bahamas: Interview with Marcellus C. Taylor

by NISSEM | Jul 30, 2020 | COVID-19

With the ‘COVID-19 Interviews’, NISSEM has embarked on a series of interviews with actors from government and civil society, in order to understand better the practicalities and...

A positive outcome in the time of Covid-19 through the use of WhatsApp in Zimbabwe

by Clare Woodward, Stephen Harrison and Clare Tope | Jul 29, 2020 | COVID-19

This blog post was written by Clare Woodward (Lecturer in International Education at The Open University) with contributions from Stephen Harrison and Clare Tope (academics in...

How prepared are teachers to deal with “learning lag” of students?

by Rammohan Khanapurkar, Ketan Dandare and Shalini Bhorkar | Jul 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Teachers

This article was written by Rammohan Khanapurkar, a public policy researcher with an MA in Education and International Development from UCL; Ketan Dandare and Shalini Bhorkar,...