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Annika Volt; Mart Laanpere; Jüri Kurvits – Educational Media International, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic caused some serious setbacks in primary and secondary education wordlwide. In 2021, the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (MoER) contracted a group of researchers and expert teachers to design and validate of a set of innovative digital learning resources that support personalized learning paths to meet the needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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Maia Lust; Mart Laanpere – Educational Media International, 2023
Since the last curriculum reform in 2011, all Estonian lower-secondary students have to conduct a year-long creative work. Unfortunately, in many cases, it is implemented as an individual written report that has little to do with improving learners' digital competence or Computational Thinking skills. In the new national curriculum (to be in force…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Creativity, Grade 8, Foreign Countries
OECD Publishing, 2021
Widespread school closures affected over one billion students during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vocational education and training (VET) sector has faced particular challenges during the crisis, most notably the fact that the digital learning environments that most education institutions had to rely on during closures don't work…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Vocational Education, School Closing
National Center on Education and the Economy, 2020
This year, widespread school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic have required almost all high-performing systems to implement distance learning to ensure that students continue learning. This document summarizes some initial takeaways from their experiences implementing distance learning in primary and secondary schools. Findings show that…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Comparative Education, High Achievement, School Closing
Dinis da Costa, Patrícia; Araújo, Luísa – European Commission, 2016
The analyses presented in this report indicate that in several Member States (MS) 15-year-old students in vocational-oriented programmes (VET) perform better in digital reading than in print reading in PISA 2012. When differentiated by programme of study--VET versus general education programmes--VET students perform better in digital than in print…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Vocational Education
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Loogma, Krista; Kruusvall, Juri; Umarik, Meril – Computers & Education, 2012
In this article, the acceptance of e-learning by teachers of vocational secondary and professional higher education institutions (hereafter: VET teachers) in Estonia has been analysed. The analysis is based on questionnaire study, carried out in 2007. The theoretical framework of the article has been inspired by Everett Rogers' innovation…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Innovation, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education