In a few weeks, corona virus (Covid 19) epidemic drastically changed that how student arround the globe are educated. Governments all around the world have closed educational institutions and universities in an attempt to contain the global corona epidemic.
According to UNESCO natoionwide closing of educational institution impacting 87% of world student population which is a leading factor for education disruption.These forcefull changes have certainly caused a degree of inconvenience but certainly they have also promoted new examples of educational innovations. Below are the some modern trends that encompasses future transformation.
1. Innovations in education systems;
The Covid-19 outbreak has become a catalyst for worldwide educational system to search for innovative solutions in a short duration.
To slow down the viral infection among students in Hong Kong they started to use interactive apps from home. In country like China students got access to learning materials through live television broadcasts. For the subjects like physical education students prepare and sent their own videos of athelitic and sports training to their mentors as a class assignment
2. Public -Private Patnership in education system;
The joint colobaration of government, publisher and education professionals with telecome network operators can better utilize the digital platform in the time of crisis. In some of countries both Education Ministry and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology come togather to develop cloud based, online learning and broadcasting platform.
3. Accessibility to digital platform;
In corona epidemic areas most of the schools are finding solutions to make continuity of teaching process, but the qulaity of teaching and learning is heavily relied on the level and quality of digital access. According to Digital 2020 report arround 60 percent of world population is online. Many of the low economic population and the less digitally savvy individual families are left behind in accessing digital platform for education and learning.
If goverment and ploicy makers of these countries make cost decreases and access to digital platform increases, these efforts can further improve the gap in education quality and maintain socioeconomic equality accross the world.
