In a matter of weeks, coronavirus (COVID-19) has changed how students are educated around the world. Those changes give us a glimpse at how education could change for the better - and the worse - in the long term.
COVID-19 has become a catalyst for educational institutions worldwide to search for innovative solutions in a relatively short period of time.
To help slow the virus' spread, students in Hong Kong started to learning at home, in February, via interactive apps. In China, 120 million Chinese access learning material through live television broadcasts.
A Hong Kong-based readtogether.hk forum (China Daily video here) is a consortium of over 60 educational organizations, publishers, media, and entertainment industry professionals, providing more than 900 educational assets, including videos, book chapters, assessment tools, and counseling services for free. The consortium's intention is to continue using and maintaining the platform even after COVID-19 has been contained.
If online teaching is to be the new norm this would have an effect on the less affluent and digitally savvy individual families, as their students are left behind. When classes transition online, these children lose out because of the cost of digital devices and data plans.
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