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Covid-19 - A Two-Week Transition from Campus to Online at the Acsenda School of Management, Canada
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)
In March 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic obliged Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in many countries to vacate their campuses and operate at a distance. We narrate the experience of the Acsenda School of Management (ASM) in ...
Fostering Rapid Institution-wide Curricular Change in Response to COVID-19
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)
To aid students during COVID-19, the University of Pikeville transitioned all undergraduate classes to no-cost alternatives for course textbooks. Additionally, the academic calendar was modified for the first time in the ...
Is there Learning Continuity during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Synthesis of the Emerging Evidence
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)
Since the onset of COVID-19, governments have launched technology-supported education interventions to ensure children learn. This paper offers a narrative synthesis of emerging evidence on technology-based education to ...
Reports from the Field: Primary School in Brazil Using Finnish Innovation Pedagogy to Create Meaningful Online Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)
ISO Colegío in Paraiba, Brazil, implemented Finnish innovation pedagogy from Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) as a pedagogical strategy in their new primary school in early 2020. The implementation started in ...
Supporting Teachers in the Transition towards Distance Education: Challenges and Means
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)
During the lockdown as a result of the pandemic, it became necessary to deploy distance education in many countries, at all levels of education. This article presents the creation of a training course aimed at helping ...
Addressing the Learning Needs of Out-of-School Children and Youths through the Expansion of Open Schooling
(2020-12)
At any one time, about 300 million children of school going age are not in school. Experience indicates that when schooling is disrupted, whether by a pandemic, a natural disaster or other reasons, not all children return ...