Data from household surveys show that many school-aged children, especially the most disadvantaged, do not have access to the internet at home. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education in modern history: at its peak, 1.6 billion children worldwide were affected by school closures.
Although it’s been more than a year since the start of the global pandemic, and many countries have already reopened their schools, a recent UNICEF report suggests that more than 25 countries have kept their schools closed as of February 2021, preventing almost 200 million schoolchildren worldwide from attending classes in-person.
In response to the unprecedented challenge posed by the pandemic, more than 90 per cent of the world’s education ministries have adopted various remote learning policies using the internet, television, radio and take-home packages to help children learn at home. Among these different modalities, online learning emulates in-person instruction the most, allowing interactions between teachers and students....
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source: Unicef
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