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Download full textCárceles Martínez-Lozano, Joaquín; Dreesen, Thomas – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
How can countries engage teachers, parents, and learners in the successful of scale-up digital learning solutions? EDUINO, North Macedonia's platform for digital learning, fostered a community of practice and successfully crowdsourced a large amount of educational content from teachers and educators around the country within weeks of the onset of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Communities of Practice
Carnelli, Marta; Dreesen, Thomas – UNICEF, 2022
When schools started closing their doors due to COVID-19, countries in Europe and Central Asia quickly provided alternative learning solutions for children to continue learning. More than 90 per cent of countries offered digital solutions to ensure that education activities could continue. However, lack of access to digital devices and a reliable…
Descriptors: Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Learning at a Distance: Children's Remote Learning Experiences in Italy during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mascheroni, Giovanna; Saeed, Marium; Valenza, Marco; Cino, Davide; Dreesen, Thomas; Zaffaroni, Lorenzo Giuseppe; Winther, Daniel Kardefelt – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
Italy was the first country in Europe to implement a nationwide lockdown. Children and their families lived in nearly complete isolation for almost two months. Students missed 65 days of school compared to an average of 27 missed days among high-income countries worldwide. This prolonged break is of concern, as even short breaks in schooling can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Kan, Sophia; Dreesen, Thomas; Valenza, Marco – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education systems around the world, resulting in an unprecedented emergency with school closures affecting 1.6 billion learners (Azevedo et al., 2021). This brought to light the need for resilient education systems that can provide education during emergencies and school closures (UNICEF, 2021). The challenge of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Ortiz-Correa, Javier Santiago; Valenza, Marco; Dreesen, Thomas; Placco, Vincenzo – UNICEF, 2021
The implementation of remote learning?in Latin America and the Caribbean during the COVID-19 school closures?confirmed that the divide?in access to electricity and?technology?remained?a?major hurdle?for governments across the region?to serve all children.?School closures risk widening?existing learning gaps as?private schools were?more prepared to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Nagesh, Radhika; Dreesen, Thomas; van Cappelle, Frank; Chopra, Vidur – UNICEF, 2021
COVID-19 school closures in South Asia lasted longer than in any other region. To mitigate subsequent effects, governments and education actors in South Asia provided a range of remote learning modalities. This report presents evidence on the reach and effectiveness of these remote learning strategies through a meta-analysis of studies from the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Valenza, Marco; Dreesen, Thomas; Djibo Abdou, Yacouba – UNICEF, 2021
Countries in West and Central Africa strived to implement national responses to continue learning activities during school closures. These responses relied on a mix of channels, including online platforms, broadcast media, mobile phones and printed learning packs. Several barriers, however, still prevented many children and adolescents in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Reopening with Resilience: Lessons from Remote Learning during COVID-19 in East Asia and the Pacific
Jeon, Youngkwang; Dreesen, Thomas; Fushimi, Akihiro; Koeppl, Dominik – UNICEF, 2021
COVID-19 school closures in East Asia and the Pacific threaten to widen existing learning inequities and increase the number of children out of school. During the pandemic, governments rapidly deployed remote learning strategies, ranging from paper-based take-home materials to digital platforms. However, lack of electricity -- critical to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Pontuschka, Rafael; Kan, Sophia; Dreesen, Thomas – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
The widespread school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the learning crisis for children living in Eastern and Southern Africa. The crisis has also shown the great need to develop resilient education systems that can provide learning when schools are forced to close. Understanding how to provide remote learning equitably…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Chang, Gwang-Chol; Eck, Matthias; McOmish, Elspeth; Sass, Justine; Vargas Tamez, Carlos; Wallet, Peter; Imhof, Adolfo Gustavo; Montoya, Silvia; Li, Yifan; Antoninis, Manos; Murakami, Yuki; Zekrya, Lema; Dewan, Pragya; Mishra, Sakshi; Mizunoya, Suguru; Onam, Oscar; Reuge, Nicolas; Yao, Haogen; Yameogo, Jean Luc; Brossard, Matt; Dreesen, Thomas; Dsouza, Andrea; Jeon, Youngkwang; Kamei, Akito; Nagesh, Radhika; Nugroho, Anindita; Pontuschka, Rafael; Akmal, Maryam; Azevedo, João Pedro; Azzi-Huck, Kaliope; Cobo, Cristobal; Gilberto, Alison; Holla, Alaka; Shmis, Tigran; Tanaka, Nobuyuki; Wong, Yi Ning; Carvalho, António; Charbonnier, Eric; Doumet, Marie-Hélène; Heckmann, Corinne – UNICEF, 2021
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have collaborated in the third round of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures, administered by the UNESCO…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
Dreesen, Thomas; Kamei, Akito; Karamperidou, Despina; Abou Fakher, Sara; Marji, Lama; Santiago Ortiz Correa, Javier – UNICEF, 2021
Digital learning has the potential to offer interactive and personalized learning for children, in and out of school, including the most marginalized. However, depending on programme design, delivery, and use, digital learning can also exacerbate learning inequalities. This report presents tangible findings on the implementation and use of digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Refugees
Valenza, Marco; Dreesen, Thomas; Kan, Sophia – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
One tool that many families own, across the globe, is a basic mobile phone. The use of low-cost basic mobile phones for educational purposes in humanitarian settings is critical where access to connectivity and higher cost devices is limited. The portability of mobile phones, combined with their communication features, offers multiple uses to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Chávez, Cirenia; Valenza, Marco; Rigole, Annika; Dreesen, Thomas – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of society. In mid-April 2020, 192 countries had closed their schools, putting 9 out of 10 enrolled children out of school. These closures disproportionately affected marginalized children, worsening existing inequities across education systems worldwide. This brief draws on the experience of five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
