The EdTech Hub’s Helpdesk and COVID-19: Demand-driven advice (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. With more than 1.5 billion children now affected by school closures, ministries of education and decision-makers around the world are urgently in need of fast, evidence-based, context-specific advice about out-of-school learning. Teachers, caregivers, parents and policymakers are tirelessly working to ensure that learning doesn’t stop. Faced with one of the…
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Launching sign languages on the Global Digital Library - Global Digital Library (Global Digital Library, 2020)
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Launching sign languages on the Global Digital Library – Global Digital Library - Global Digital Library (2020)
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Education Systems’ Response to COVID19 - World Bank (The World Bank, 2020)
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Using Transparency To Create Accountability When School Buildings Are Closed and Tests Are Canceled - Gill, Brian P. (Education Next, 2020)
The districts and schools most likely to succeed in remote education will be those that provide a substantial amount of synchronous instruction and live student–teacher interaction.
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10 challenges of e-learning during COVID-19 & ways to solve them - Plitnichenko, Lisa (Jellyfish.tech, 2020)
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School closures, government responses, and learning inequality around the world during COVID-19 - Vegas, Emiliana (The Brookings Institution, 2020)
According to UNESCO, as of April 14, 188 countries around the world have closed schools nationwide, affecting over 1.5 billion learners and representing more than 91 percent of total enrolled learn…
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Education during the COVID-19 crisis: opportunities and constraints of using EdTech in low-income countries - David, Raluca; Pellini, Arnaldo; Jordan, Katy; Philips, Toby (Zenodo, 2020)
Key points: Technology can help mitigate the effects of the educational crisis and closures of schools, but ed-tech is not a silver bullet and governments need to have realistic expectations about what it can achieve The digital divide means that internet and mobile network access varies greatly in middle- and low-income countries Governments can provide immediate support by informing teachers about simple grassroots platforms where they can share their own ed-tech solutions Educational TV and radio broadcasts in combination with SMS are effective communication channels between educators and students when the internet connectivity is poor or not available It will be important for education authorities to begin planning how in 12-months’ time they will diagnose and treat the learning gaps that have emerged during the crisis.
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Report: The Impact of COVID-19 Across Africa - Elliott, Roxana (GeoPoll, 2020)
New report on coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa including data from Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria. COVID-19 and food security, economic impact.
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Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on children - UN (UN, 2020)
Children are not the face of this pandemic. But they risk being among its biggest victims. While they have thankfully been largely spared from the direct health effects of COVID-19 at least to date – the crisis is having a profound effect on their wellbeing. All children, of all ages, and in all countries, are being affected, in particular by the socio-economic impacts and, in some cases, by mitigation measures that may inadvertently do more harm than good. This is a universal crisis and, for some children, the impact will be lifelong. Moreover, the harmful effects of this pandemic will not be distributed equally. They are expected to be most damaging for children in the poorest countries, and in the poorest neighbourhoods, and for those in already disadvantaged or vulnerable situations. This policy brief provides a deeper analysis of these effects. It identifies also a series of immediate and sustained actions for the attention of governments and policymakers.
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Think Local: Support for learning during coronavirus (COVID-19) could be found from within communities (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. While technology is a potentially powerful tool in low-resourced contexts, technology use is not always possible or appropriate, as previous Hub blogs have asserted. The following blog emphasises the particular role that communities can play in supporting continued learning opportunities for the billions of children whose education has been disrupted by…
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Gobierno habilita herramienta “Inteligencia Quisqueya” para estudiantes que se preparan para pruebas nacionales - CDN, Redacción (CDN - El Canal de Noticias de los Dominicanos, 2020)
Estableció también que los jóvenes y adultos que lo deseen, podrán cursar a través de la Escuela Radiofónica Santa María estudios básicos y medios.
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Continue or reboot? Overarching options for education responses to COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries - Haßler, Björn (2020)
Björn Haßler, https://opendeved.net/2020/04/15/continue-or-reboot/, 2020-04-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3753513
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THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON LEARNING - THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE GHANAIAN STUDENT - Owusu-Fordjour, C.; Koomson, C. K.; Hanson, D. (European Journal of Education Studies, 2020)
This study aimed at accessing the impact of Covid-19 on Ghana’s teaching and learning. The study employed a Descriptive survey design in which 11 items Likert-scale type of questionnaires was administered to 214 respondents mainly students in the second cycle and tertiary institutions of Ghana. The study employed simple random sampling technique in selecting the respondents for the study. The study revealed some challenges students encounter in the close down of schools due to the outbreak of the pandemic Covid-19: Students are unable to study effectively from the house thus, making the online system of learning very ineffective. Again, parents are incapable of assisting their wards on how to access online learning platform, neither can they entirely supervise the learning of their children at home without any complications. It came to light that the pandemic really has had a negative impact on their learning as many of them are not used to effectively learn by themselves. The e-learning platforms rolled out also poses challenge to majority of the students because of the limited access to internet and lack of the technical knowhow of these technological devices by most Ghanaian students. The study therefore recommends that students should be introduced to e-learning platforms to supplement classroom teaching and learning. Article visualizations:
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Education during the pandemic: VVOB continues capacity development of education partners from a safe distance - Vandenbosch, Tom; Katelin, Raw (Teaching at the Right Level, 2020)
VVOB Zambia team member Richard Bwale continues to work from home. Photo: VVOB This blogpost is part of a series – over the next few months, the TaRL blog hopes to showcase what various organisations are doing to continue to support education systems and ensure that learning continues while schools across the world are closed […]
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High Court stops Malawi's 21-day coronavirus lockdown - Montsho, Molaole (2020)
The Lilongwe High Court in Malawi has granted Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HDRC) an order blocking the government from effecting a 21-day lockdown meant to curb the spread of Covid-19.
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Rapid Response Guidance Note: Educational Television & COVID-19 - World Bank (2020)
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Rapid Response Guidance Note: Educational Television & COVID-19 - World Bank; Bank, World (2020)
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Laptops offered for online school lessons at home - Coughlan, Sean (BBC News, 2020)
Pupils studying at home will have online lessons and disadvantaged teenagers can borrow computers.
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How involved are parents in their children’s learning? MICS6 data reveal critical insights - Mishra, Sakshi; Brossard, Matt; Reuge, Nicolas; Mizunoya, Suguru (Evidence for Action, 2020)
It is widely understood that parents play a pivotal role in a child’s education – research suggests that parental involvement in a child’s education boosts well-being and confidence and is important for academic progression. With school closures due to the global COVID-19 pandemic affecting an estimated 1.58 billion children in more than 180 countries, the importance of parental involvement in education has suddenly and dramatically increased. Internationally comparable data on parental involvement and its impact on children’s education is extremely limited. To address this critical gap, round 6 of the UNICEF supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS6) includes a new…
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How involved are parents in their children’s learning? MICS6 data reveal critical insights - Mishra, Sakshi; Brossard, Matt; Reuge, Nicolas; Mizunoya, Suguru (Evidence for Action, 2020)
It is widely understood that parents play a pivotal role in a child’s education – research suggests that parental involvement in a child’s education boosts well-being and confidence and is important for academic progression. With school closures due to the global COVID-19 pandemic affecting an estimated 1.58 billion children in more than 180 countries, the importance of parental involvement in education has suddenly and dramatically increased. Internationally comparable data on parental involvement and its impact on children’s education is extremely limited. To address this critical gap, round 6 of the UNICEF supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS6) includes a new…
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The privilege of #pivotonline: A South African perspective - Adam, Taskeen (Open Development & Education, 2020)
Taskeen Adam, https://opendeved.net/2020/04/22/the-privilege-of-#pivotonline/, 2020-04-22, 10.5281/zenodo.3760383 As the global number of COVID-19 cases increase, lockdowns continue across the world. Reports from UNESCO highlight that nationwide closures are impacting over 91% of the world’s student population who can no longer attend school. With schools closed, there has been a mass shift to online education — from primary …
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The role of interactive radio instruction in the coronavirus (COVID-19) education response - McBurnie, Chris (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. Every week that passes we see the number of classrooms closed due to COVID-19 increase. During these unprecedented times, the Hub’s mission — to increase the use of evidence-based decisions around EdTech — is more important than ever. We must make sure learning goes on. […]
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Caring in the time of COVID-19: Gender, unpaid care work and social protection - Nesbitt-Ahmed, Zahrah; Subrahmanian, Ramya (UNICEF Evidence for Action, 2020)
The impact of COVID-19 on care workers and the role of social protection in ensuring they thrive while performing critical services in homes and communities
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Delivering distance learning in emergencies: A review of evidence and best practice - Morris, Emily; Farrell, Anna; EnCompass LLC; MSI (USAID, 2020)
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Delivering Distance Education in Emergencies: A Review of Evidence and Best Practice - USAID (2020)
The purpose of this review, produced by USAID's Data and Evidence in Education Programs (DEEP) activity, is to provide evidence on four effective distance learning modalities that can be implemented in USAID-recipient countries during and beyond emergencies.
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Delivering Distance Learning in Emergencies | Education Links - USAID (2020)
The purpose of this review, produced by USAID's Data and Evidence in Education Programs (DEEP) activity, is to provide evidence on four effective distance learning modalities that can be implemented in USAID-recipient countries during and beyond emergencies.
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Technical Note: Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic. - Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). (2020)
We are thrilled to share a new INEE Technical Note on Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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EdTech in the time of COVID-19: We need more than evidence to harness the potential of EdTech to deliver on its promise | The Education and Development Forum - Outhred, Rachel; Lipcan, Alina (UKFIET, 2020)
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Back to school: Preparing and managing the reopening of schools - UNESCO (2020)
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Covid-19 Crisis: UNESCO Call to Support Learning and Knowledge Sharing through Open Educational Resources - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2020)
In response to the massive disruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic affecting 1.57 billion learners in 191 countries, UNESCO has issued a Call to support learning and knowledge sharing through Open Educational Resources (OER) worldwide. OER are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright released under an open license[1], permitting no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.
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Francophone countries and COVID-19 EdTech response (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. One thing about coronavirus is clear — it does not respect borders. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in school closures across the world. With about 300 million French speakers worldwide, here we consider some initial lessons from francophone education systems, their EdTech response, and the importance of cooperation of countries…
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Solutions EdTech face au COVID-19 dans les pays francophones (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. Une chose est sûre avec le coronavirus – il n’a pas de frontière. Depuis son émergence, le coronavirus a causé la fermeture d’écoles dans le monde entier. Ce nouveau blog post s’intéresse aux près de 300 millions de francophones dans le monde et aux leçons que nous pouvons tirer de…
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A case study of innovations that address constraints on the effectiveness of early-grade reading achievement - Comings, John P. (PROSPECTS, 2020)
The United States Agency for International Development, World Vision, and the Australian government established All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD) to address problems that prevent children from gaining foundational reading skills. ACR GCD mobilizes the private sector, academia, and nongovernmental organizations in problem-solving dialogues that support the development, testing, and promotion of new solutions to these problems. It also advances EdTech innovation and research to improve reading outcomes for marginalized children in low-resource contexts to effectively build bridges over system constraints in ways that lower the risk of pilot-testing and eventual large-scale replication. This case study describes some of ACR GCD’s funded innovations and its nontraditional approach to employing grant competitions (in which innovators propose solutions to broadly described problems) and prizes (in which innovators develop solutions to specifically identified problems). For innovations that have been evaluated, this article summarizes the findings on their impact on learning.
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Solutions EdTech face au COVID-19 dans les pays francophones - Lwamba, Etienne (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. Une chose est sûre avec le coronavirus – il n’a pas de frontière. Depuis son émergence, le coronavirus a causé la fermeture d’écoles dans le monde entier. Ce nouveau blog post s’intéresse aux près de 300 millions de francophones dans le monde et aux leçons […]
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1.3 billion learners are still affected by school or university closures, as educational institutions start reopening around the world, says UNESCO - UNESCO (2020)
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COVID-19 and Bangladesh: challenges and how to address them - Anwar, Saeed; Nasrullah, Mohammad; Hosen, Mohammad Jakir (Frontiers in Public Health, 2020)
As the coronavirus outbreak quickly surges worldwide, many countries are adopting non-therapeutic preventive measures, which include travel bans, remote office activities, country lockdown, and most importantly, social distancing. However, these measures face challenges in Bangladesh, a lower-middle-income economy with one of the world's densest populations. Social distancing is difficult in many areas of the country, and with the minimal resources the country has, it would be extremely challenging to implement the mitigation measures. Mobile sanitization facilities and temporary quarantine sites and healthcare facilities could help mitigate the impact of the pandemic at a local level. A prompt, supportive, and empathic collaboration between the Government, citizens, and health experts, along with international assistance, can enable the country to minimize the impact of the pandemic.
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How can Sierra Leone’s education response after Ebola help with the COVID-19 response? - Bangay, Colin (The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET), 2020)
This blog is written by Colin Bangay, Senior Education Adviser, Department for International Development (DFID). It aims to look at some practical and sensible lessons from the education response in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak, to help others as they face closures of education systems. This blog was originally published on the Global Partnership […]
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Proposal for GPE Accelerated Funding for COVID-19 Response: Malawi - GPE (Global Partnership for Education, 2020)
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A rapid assessment: Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Bangladesh - Advocacy for Social Change, BRAC; BRAC Education Programme (2020)
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Characteristics of effective teacher education in low- and middle-income countries: What are they and what role can EdTech play? - Allier-Gagneur, Zoe; McBurnie, Chris; Chuang, Rachel; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This paper analyses a range of literature reviews to identify characteristics of effective teacher education, including focusing on practical subject pedagogy; incorporating peer support and; creating a coherent policy environment.
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A Rapid Assessment: Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Bangladesh - BRAC (Advocacy for Social Change (ASC), BRAC, 2020)
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Overview of emerging country-level response to providing educational continuity under COVID-19 - Hallgarten, Joe; Gorgen, Kristine; Sims, Kate (Education Development Trust, 2020)
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Characteristics of effective teacher education in low- and middle-income countries: an overview (HDR10A) - Haßler, Björn; McBurnie, Chris; Allier-Gagneur, Zoe; Damani, Kalifa (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Bangladesh Back-to-School Campaign - Kaye, Tom; Chuang, Rachel; Moss Coflan, Caitlin; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
The EdTech Hub received a request from the FCDO Bangladesh team to provide a topic brief identifying best practices from previous back-to-school campaigns following disruptions. Key themes of effective school re-openings are examined in the context of modalities used to deliver distance learning (e.g., radio, television).
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What steps are being taken to reach the most disadvantaged students during the period of Covid-19 school closure? - McAleavy, Tony; Joynes, Chris; Gibbs, Emma; Sims, Kate (Education Development Trust, 2020)
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The Use of Virtual Learning Environments and Learning Management Systems During the Covid-19 Pandemic - McBurnie, Chris (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This technical note aims to inform the use and development of virtual learning environments (VLE) in educational responses to the current health crisis. It considers the advantages and disadvantages of a number of existing VLEs and includes guidance on selecting an appropriate VLE.
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Zero-Rating Educational Content in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - McBurnie, Chris; Adam, Taskeen; Kaye, Thomas; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Characteristics of effective teacher education in low- and middle-income countries: an annotated bibliography (HDR10C) - McBurnie, Chris; Allier-Gagneur, Zoe; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Distance Learning Initiative Interim findings: May 15, 2020 - Ministry of Education and Higher Education (Lebanon) (2020)
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COVID-19 response and recovery plan: education sector - Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (Ministry of Education, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, 2020)
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Overview of emerging country-level response to providing educational continuity under COVID-19: What are the lessons learned from supporting education for marginalised girls that could be relevant for EdTech responses to COVID-19 in lower- and middle-income countries? - Naylor, Ruth; Gorgen, Kristine (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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What are countries doing that already use remote learning extensively? What can we learn from them? - Ndaruhutse, Susy; Gibbs, Emma; Fitzpatrick, Rachael (2020)
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Kenya basic education COVID-19 emergency response plan - State Department of Early Learning and Basic Education (Republic of Kenya Ministry of Education, 2020)
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Multi-Sectoral Rapid Needs Assessment: COVID19 - Jordan - UNHCR; UNICEF; WFP (2020)
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Guidance on Distance Learning Modalities to Reach All Children and Youth During School Closures - UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (2020)
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COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan (Humanitarian response plan) | Financial Tracking Service - United Nations (2020)
United Nations Coordinated Appeal
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Barriers to Investing in Last-Mile Connectivity - USAID (2020)
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Using telecollaboration to promote intercultural competence in teacher training classrooms in Turkey and the USA - Üzüm, Babürhan; Akayoglu, Sedat; Yazan, Bedrettin (ReCALL, 2020)
Since advances in computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools have made virtual exchanges readily available in educational practices, telecollaboration has been gaining traction as a means to provide practical experiences and cultural exposure to language learners and, more recently, teacher trainees. Drawing upon Byram’s (1997) model of intercultural communicative competence (ICC), this study examines 48 teacher trainees’ interculturality through a telecollaborative project between two teacher training classes from Turkey and the USA. This study relies on data generated by the participants throughout this telecollaborative project: weekly online discussion board posts within groups of six and post-project reflections. Although developing ICC is an arduous and prolonged task, the data analysis suggested that the participants’ experiences in this telecollaboration contributed to their emergent ICC through discussions on the topics of multicultural education and interactions with trainees from another educational context. Their intercultural learning is evidenced by their (1) awareness of heterogeneity in their own and interactants’ culture, (2) nascent critical cultural awareness, and (3) curiosity and willingness to learn more about the other culture. Thus, this study implies that telecollaboration offers an effective teacher training venue that affords teacher trainees with first-hand intercultural encounters to engage with otherness and prepare for their ethnolinguistically diverse classrooms.
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Keywords: critical cultural awareness; intercultural communicative competence; teacher training; telecollaboration

Help us improve education through technology: Sign up for user research (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. This week we kicked off our project to make our website more useful during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This is part of the EdTech Hub’s strategy to respond to the pandemic, by providing rapid, actionable information and advice to government decision-makers. We want to help decision-makers navigate the opportunities and challenges of…
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Social inequalities, fundamental inequities, and recurring of the digital divide: Insights from India - Tewathia, Nidhi; Kamath, Anant; Ilavarasan, P. Vigneswara (Technology in Society, 2020)
The paper uses a large scale national quantitate dataset to provide a fresh perspective on linkages between the digital divide and social inequalities in India. Commencing from two classical social theoretical perspectives – the Marxian conflict perspective and the Weberian cultural perspective – as starting points, we employed MANCOVA analysis on data of more than forty thousand households. The Marxian perspective reveals how information and communication technologies (ICT) assets come to be owned, and how they are used with the help of specific digital skills by the working class to influence labour markets and intergenerationally transfer class advantage. The Weberian perspective focuses on how ownership and use of ICT assets define an elite lifestyle which excludes others. The analysis is deepened by employing network effects approach. Results from data analysis indicate that the less educated, lower-income group, and lower caste strata are further marginalised as they neither have ICT assets nor the skills to use them. Households whose primary source of income is organised business own and use their ICT assets more than those that depend on agricultural or non-agricultural wage labour. Also, the highest adult education in a household, caste, and the primary source of income of the household differentiate ICT ownership and use. Overall, ICT ownership and usage are significantly different for different socio-economic groups in India. This linkage demonstrates how inequalities are aggravated in the manner of a Matthew Effect. The paper suggests that ICTs may end up amplifying the social inequalities in India.
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Keywords: Digital divide; Households; ICT; IHDS; Inequality

Will COVID-19 help to clarify ICT integration into education in Malawi? - Gondwe, Foster (The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET), 2020)
This blog was written by Foster Gondwe, Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Malawi, and currently a PhD student at Hiroshima University, Japan. Preamble To join global efforts in curbing the spread of COVID-19, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) in Malawi closed all schools, colleges and universities from Monday, 23rd […]
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Nepal “Ask me anything” Session: Responses to audience questions - Kaye, Tom; Groeneveld, Caspar; Moss, Caitlin; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
On Thursday, 30 April 2020, EdTech Hub participated in an 'Ask me anything' session for policymakers and funders in Nepal. The session focused on designing high-quality, effective, distance education programmes during the Covid-19 pandemic. Participants included high-level officials from the Nepalese government (e.g., the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the Curriculum Development Office, and the Education Review Office), representatives from development partners (e.g., the World Bank, UNICEF and USAID) and other education organisations (e.g., OLE Nepal). The session was convened for two purposes. First, to consider international good practice and current trends in distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic, presented by the World Bank EduTech team and EdTech Hub. Second, for the EdTech Hub team to gather questions from participants, to be able to target guidance specifically to the situation in Nepal. This document provides answers to a consolidated list of 10 questions received from stakeholders during the session. To consolidate any overlap, we have occasionally combined multiple questions into one. In other cases, where multiple important issues required a focused response, we split apart questions.
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Ghana Learning TV May Timetable from KG to SHS - Ghana Education Service (2020)
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Intersectionality as a lens to the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for sexual and reproductive health in development and humanitarian contexts - Lokot, Michelle; Avakyan, Yeva (Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020)
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Are children with disabilities in school and learning? Evidence from a household survey in rural Punjab, Pakistan - Malik, Rabea; Raza, Fizza; Rose, Pauline; Singal, Nidhi (Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020)
Invisibility of children with disabilities in data on educational access and learning is a key policy challenge for tracking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In this article, we report findings from a household survey undertaken in rural Punjab, Pakistan. These data enable us to identify the extent to which children with disabilities are in school and learning the basics in literacy and numeracy. We find that, perhaps contrary to expectations, many of these children in this context are in mainstream (government and private) schools, although their chances of being in school are lower than their peers. We further find that overall levels of literacy and numeracy are low, even more so for children with disabilities. Our findings corroborate recent research from other countries. The paper highlights important lessons for the policy which are of relevance to other low-income contexts.
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Keywords: Learning outcomes; Pakistan; Washington Group; disability; household survey; primary education

How school closures during COVID-19 further marginalize vulnerable children in Kenya - Jepkemei, Damaris Seleina Parsitau and Evelyn (Brookings, 2020)
School closures in Kenya have devastating consequences for marginalized learners.
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How can governments, schools and teachers support education continuity and good pedagogy under coronavirus (Covid-19)? (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. Written by Anna Riggall (Head of Research) and Tony McAleavy (Research Director), Education Development Trust As the horror of Covid-19 became apparent, governments around the world closed schools in their attempts to control the spread of the virus. According to UNESCO, schools are closed in 191 countries, impacting 90% of the world’s…
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The COVID-19 Pandemic: Shocks to Education and Policy Responses - Rogers, Halsey; Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Avitabile, Ciro; Lee, Jessica; Miyamoto, Koji; Nellemann, Soren; Venegas Marin, Sergio (World Bank, 2020)
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The COVID-19 Pandemic: Shocks to Education and Policy Responses - World Bank (World Bank, 2020)
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Lebanon Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Markets 2020 - Pricing of Telecom Services Has Been Raised as an Issue in Recent Years (Business Wire, 2020)
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An Improved Model for the Implementation of Web-Based Learning in Adult Secondary School Education in Kenya - Ng’ang’a, Ms Martha Muthoni; Kimani, Prof Stephen; Kimwele, Dr Michael W. (International Journal of Computer (IJC), 2020)
The development of technology, which evolves continuously, has led to the transformation of traditional courses into web-based courses. However, as these e-learning systems grow more complex, involving numerous users with different levels of need, there is a need to have web-based learning models that adequately address such users’ needs, taking into consideration their levels of expertise, access and ability to interact with such systems. Most of the existing models present the adult learners with difficulties, as most of them have to concentrate mostly on learning the technology rather than learning the desired content. Most of the difficulties arise from the web-based learning model configurations in use in the country. The majority lack features and capabilities of highly interactive, fast-paced multimedia-supported learning currently demanded by most learners and tutors. Therefore, the main aim of this research was to devise an improved model for implementing a web-based learning programme in adult secondary school education. After analysing the existing models and establishing their operational challenges, an improved model was proposed. The proposed model was statistically tested using sample data. The results showed that recognizing both technological and user attributes along the recognized theoretical frameworks was important in increasing the users’ behavioural inclination to use the improved model. Therefore, it is recommended that more sensitization to web-based learning should be implemented by the adult education department in the Ministry of Education among adult learners in the country. It is also recommended that system developers should find ways of incorporating additional features into the model without affecting its architecture and function. Finally, there is need for future studies on the causal antecedents of the constructs presented in this research model to provide more precise practical implications.
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Keywords: Adult Learners; Model; Web Based Learning; ⛔ No DOI found

Assessing the real-life socio-economic scenario of established slums in Dhaka: the cases of Korail and Sattola - Bashar, Raisa; Tonmoy, Sirajus; Ria, Alvira; Khan, Nazmul (European Online Journal of Natural and Social Sciences, 2020)
The research aims to assess the current situation of three primary socioeconomic indicators, namely education, health and water availability at the two most established slums of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka-Korail and Sattola. Surveys, using cluster and then random sampling to target households, and analysis, found that both slums' children's education level was moderate with 52%-68% and 20%-28% availing primary and secondary education, respectively; several NGOs had helped to establish brick-and-mortar latrines and disseminate necessary and effective awareness about sanitation; and surveyed slum dwellers were economically strong, with 68%-70% of the interviewed households' income levels being 10,000-15,000 BDT (USD 118-178) per month. A comparative analysis with national level statistics also yielded that the conditions in these slums are truly better than previously thought. Primary recommendation includes in-depth monitoring to understand why such large numbers live in slums, even though they can afford better.
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EdTech call for ideas: What have we learned from the applications? (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. On 21st April, we launched a call for ideas for EdTech in responses to coronavirus and the lockdown of schools around the world. Three weeks later, we’ve taken a slice of the first 100 responses and analysed the data. Combining this with conversations our team is having every day with technologists and…
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Publish, learn, improve (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This week we’ve designed and prototyped a tool to make our website more useful during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We want to enable decision-makers to make informed choices about if, when and how to use EdTech during this crisis. We’re building something to help you find education responses by governments and EdTech tools that support these responses. Given the urgency…
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Between Social Justice and Decolonisation: Exploring South African MOOC Designers’ Conceptualisations and Approaches to Addressing Injustices - Adam, Taskeen (Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020)
As social justice and decolonisation discussions fill the physical and virtual corridors of universities in South Africa, educators, and in this case, MOOC designers, are inevitably influenced by them. They are prompted to reflect on such topics, whether in agreement or with scepticism. Provoked by one interviewee’s comment that ‘you could decolonise and still have an enormous amount of injustice’, this paper investigates how South African MOOC designers conceptualise (in)justice, and how they attempt to address these injustices in and through their MOOCs. As notions such as ‘social justice’ and ‘decolonisation’ have multiple meanings and connotations, a framework was created to unpack the ‘Dimensions of Human Injustice’ namely, material, cultural-epistemic, and political/geopolitical injustices. These dimensions of injustice were used to analyse semi-structured interviews with 27 South African MOOC designers. MOOC designers who stressed cultural-epistemic injustices, focused on relevance, inclusive processes and the geopolitics of knowledge production. Those who stressed material injustices, focused on socio-economic disparities, infrastructural inequalities and the need to tackle these systemic problems at a societal level. Through illustrating that MOOC designers attempt to address injustices based on their different conceptualisations of (in)justice, this study argues that a multi-pronged approach to tackling the various dimensions of injustice perpetuated in and through MOOCs can lead to more holistic justice-oriented MOOCs that better enable learners. Additionally, justice-oriented efforts by South African MOOC designers, highlighted in this paper, can be seen as a guide for the MOOC space in general to take greater strides in creating MOOCs in more justice-oriented ways.
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Who has what? Assessing who has access to what devices in the education response to the COVID-19 pandemic - Haßler, Björn; Khalayleh, Abdullah; McBurnie, Chris; Adam, Taskeen; Allier-Gagneur, Zoé (Open Development & Education, 2020)
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Could coronavirus lockdowns help close Latin America's digital divide? - Moloney, Anastasia (Reuters, 2020)
As Colombia enters its eighth week of coronavirus lockdown, street vendor Luis Duarte worries that his teenage daughter might not finish her school year now that her classes have moved online.
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Taleem Ghar: Delivering Education In The Safety Of Homes - The Academia (2020)
Taleem Ghar: Delivering Education In The Safety Of Homes Asad Ullah Khan explain how Punjab government has acted to effects of COVID-19 in education
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Taleem Ghar: Delivering Education In The Safety Of Homes - The Academia (2020)
Taleem Ghar: Delivering Education In The Safety Of Homes Asad Ullah Khan explain how Punjab government has acted to effects of COVID-19 in education
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Calculating the Educational Impact of COVID-19 (Part II): Using Data from Successive Grades to Estimate Learning Loss | SharEd - Cummiskey, Chris (2020)
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Reopening schools: How to get education back on track after COVID-19 - IIEP UNESCO; Planning, International Institute for Educational (IIEP-UNESCO, 2020)
It is a ‘back to school’ season like no other: countries are beginning to reopen their school gates following weeks of e
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Reopening schools: How to get education back on track after COVID-19 - International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO, 2020)
It is a ‘back to school’ season like no other: countries are beginning to reopen their school gates following weeks of e
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Brazil: Secretaria Estadual de Educação de São Paulo (São Paulo State Department of Education) - Dellagnelo, Lucia; Reimers, Fernando (2020)
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Distance Learning Denied - Giannini, Stefania (World Education Blog, 2020)
Over 500 million of the world’s children and youth not accessing distance learning alternatives By Stefania Giannini, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education Most countries around the world…
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5 actions to help bring the most marginalized girls back to school after COVID-19 - Jenkins, Robert; Winthrop, Rebecca (The Brookings Institution, 2020)
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Digital technologies in the COVID-19 responses in sub-Saharan Africa: policies, problems and promises - Bakibinga-Gaswaga, Elizabeth; Bakibinga, Stella; Bakibinga, David Baxter Mutekanga; Bakibinga, Pauline (The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020)
The gains made five years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will be lost if the threats presented by the COVID-19 pandemic are not countered in a timely manner. The threat is worse in sub Saharan Africa where poverty and poor health and limited access to services present challenges to even the most robust of health systems on the continent. In light of the requisite public-private collaboration and multi-sectoral approach, digital technologies offer opportunities to support the COVID-19 responses. This commentary reviews the policy environment and the challenges presented by digital illiteracy, poor infrastructure, the high cost of installing ICT infrastructure, the volatile political environment and limited electricity supply as well as the opportunities that digital technologies provide to ensure that people and communities are still able to access goods and services. It highlights how digital technologies are being used by the governments, parliaments, judiciaries, schools, health service providers, transport authorities and marketers to reach their targeted audiences. The commentary concludes with recommendations on possible interventions that emphasize the need to address infrastructural limitations, promote public private partnerships and tackle the digital divide in all its dimensions, including from a gender and rural/urban perspective.
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Reopening schools: When, where and how? - Giannini, Stefania; Jenkins, Robert; Saavedra, Jaime (World Bank Blogs, 2020)
Reopening schools: When, where and how?
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Why the COVID Crisis Is Not EdTech’s Moment in Africa (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This blog was originally posted on the Center for Global Development blog with data used from the EdTech Hub’s database of interventions. Our database, which was initially limited to sub-Saharan Africa, now has a global scope. As the blog suggests, there is a need to increase the database’s representation of interventions in other regions. Please add your EdTech intervention to…
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Remote-learning, Time-Use, and Mental Health of Ecuadorian High-School Studentsduring the COVID-19 Quarantine - Asanov, Igor; Flores, Francisco; McKenzie, David; Mensmann, Mona; Schulte, Mathis (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2020)
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From the Helpdesk: Observations and guidance on educational response planning during the COVID-19 crisis (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Written by Rachel Chuang, Tom Kaye, Caitlin Moss Coflan & Arjun Upadhyay (EdTech Hub Helpdesk Management Team) Amid one of the biggest global disruptions to schooling in living memory, countries are quickly developing distance education responses for students. The EdTech Hub’s Helpdesk is providing evidence-informed responses to requests for support from governments and their partners as they face this challenge. …
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Why the COVID Crisis Is Not EdTech’s Moment In Africa [repost] - CrawFurd, Lee (Open Development & Education, 2020)
With schools closed for hundreds of million students around the world, many have hoped that “edtech” can help keep children learning via internet, apps, and mobiles. A new database published by the EdTech Hub shows that though use of edtech products serving African countries has doubled in the last month, the total number of users is still very low, and most were viewers of one TV show. That, coupled with the fact that most firms come from just a few countries, suggests that edtech in Africa is far from maturity.
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A five-part education response to the COVID-19 pandemic - Haßler, Björn; Khalayleh, Abdullah; McBurnie, Chris (EdTech Hub, 2020)
In March 2020, many countries began to close schools to slow the spread of coronavirus. Education leaders have subsequently launched rapid response programmes, implemented measures to support system recovery and explored long-term reforms. This paper proposes a five-part approach to guide education leaders through this process.
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Ivory Coast children head back to school after virus shutdown - Reuters Staff (Reuters, 2020)
Thousands of children in face masks flocked back to school in Ivory Coast on Monday after the country became one of the first in West Africa to restart lessons after a two-month coronavirus shutdown.
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Calculating the Educational Impact of COVID-19 (Part II): Using Data from Successive Grades to Estimate Learning Loss - Cummiskey, Chris; Stern, Jonathan; DeStefano, Joe; Piper, Ben (The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET), 2020)
This article was co-authored by Christopher Cummiskey and Jonathan Stern. It benefitted from input from Joe DeStefano, Tim Slade, and Ben Piper. The article was originally published on the RTI SharEd website on 13 May 2020. Part I can be read here. A couple of weeks ago, we set the stage for developing evidence-based, data-driven […]
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Global Education Coalition facilitates free internet access for distance education in several countries - UNESCO (2020)
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MozPulse wave 1 Results Report - World Bank (World Bank, 2020)
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Meeting the challenges posed by per diem in development projects in southern countries: a scoping review - Samb, Oumar Mallé; Essombe, Christiane; Ridde, Valery (Globalization and Health, 2020)
This study presents the results of a review whose goal is to generate knowledge on the possible levers of action concerning per diem practices in southern countries in order to propose reforms to the existing schemes.
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Keywords: Per diem; Policy dialogue; Reform; West Africa

Comparative Analysis of Personal Data Protection Bill 2020 with Laws and Bills in the EU, UK, India, and Malaysia - Shahani, Shumaila Hussain (2020)
Overview of the Comparative Analysis By Shumaila Hussain Shahani The draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2020 was made available by the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) on its website on April 9, 2020. This analysis compares the draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2020 to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (from which the …
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Kemendikbud Terbitkan Pedoman Penyelenggaraan Belajar dari Rumah - Belajar dari Rumah (Kementerian Pendidikan, Kebudayaan, Riset, dan Teknologi, 2020)
Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Kemendikbud) menerbitkan Surat Edaran Nomor 15 Tahun 2020 tentang Pedoman Penyelenggaraan Belajar Dari Rumah Dalam Masa Darurat Penyebaran Covid-19. Staf Ahli Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Bidang Regulasi, Chatarina Muliana Girsang menyampaikan Surat Edaran Nomor 15 ini untuk memperkuat Surat Edaran Mendikbud Nomor 4 Tahun 2020 tentang Pelaksanaan Pendidikan Dalam Masa Darurat Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19).
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Covid-19 Is History’s Biggest Translation Challenge - McCulloch, Gretchen (Wired, 2020)
Services like Google Translate support only 100 languages, give or take. What about the thousands of other languages—spoken by people just as vulnerable to this crisis?
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Keywords: coronavirus; covid-19; language; translation; web

Trapped in low performance? Tracking the learning trajectory of disadvantaged girls and boys in the Complementary Basic Education programme in Ghana | Elsevier Enhanced Reader - McCulloch, Gretchen (2020)
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Putting the ‘learning’ back in remote learning - Alam, Andaleeb; Tiwari, Priyamvada (UNICEF, 2020)
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Refugee Education: A Rapid Evidence Review - Ashlee, Amy; Clericetti, Giulia; Mitchell, Joel (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This Rapid Evidence Review (RER) provides an overview of existing literature on the use of educational technology (EdTech) for education of refugees in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The RER has been produced in response to the widespread global shutdown of schools resulting from the outbreak of Covid-19. It therefore has an emphasis on transferable insights that may be applicable to educational responses resulting from the limitations caused by Covid-19. In the current global context, lessons learnt from the use of EdTech in refugee contexts — in which education is often significantly disrupted and education systems and responses are required to rapidly adapt — are salient.
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Back-to-School Campaigns Following Disruptions to Education - Chuang, Rachel; Kaye, Tom; Moss Coflan, Caitlin; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This EdTech Hub Helpdesk response focuses on back-to-school campaigns following disruptions to education, ensuring that children rapidly return to school as soon as it is safe and practical. Key themes of effective school re-openings are examined in the context of modalities used to deliver distance learning (e.g., radio, television).
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Radio: A Rapid Evidence Review - Damani, Kalifa; Mitchell, Joel (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This Rapid Evidence Review (RER) provides an overview of the existing literature on the use of radio in education in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The present RER has been produced in response to the novel 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19), and the resulting widespread shutdown of schools. It, therefore, highlights transferable insights that may be applicable to educational responses resulting from the limitations caused by COVID-19. Established approaches to delivering distance education have renewed salience during this period because many students cannot access schooling in a school building due to social distancing requirements. As one of the longest-serving and most accessible types of educational technology (EdTech), and one that has had some success in education delivery in an LMIC context that was affected by an epidemic, it is particularly useful to focus on radio (Barnett et al., 2018; Hallgarten, 2020). Notably, the RER aims neither to advocate nor discourage the use of radio in education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it provides an accessible summary of existing evidence on the topic so that educators, policy makers and donors might make informed decisions about the potential of radio in education delivery.
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Gender and the digital divide across urban slums of New Delhi, India: cross-sectional study - Joshi, Ashish; Malhotra, Bhavya; Amadi, Chioma; Loomba, Menka; Misra, Archa; Sharma, Shruti; Arora, Arushi; Amatya, Jaya (Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020)
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Building effective COVID-19 Education Response Plans: Insights from Africa and Asia - Kimenyi, Eric; Otieno, Jennifer; Kaye, Tom (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Achieving World-Class Education in Adverse Socioeconomic Conditions: The Case of Sobral in Brazil - Loureiro, Andre; Cruz, Louisee (World Bank, 2020)
This report presents the case of the municipality of Sobral in the state of Ceara, Brazil. This municipality overcame adverse socioeconomic conditions and now has the best primary andlower secondary education system in Brazil. Sobral is home to 200,000 inhabitants and in 2005 was ranked 1,366 in the national index that measures quality of education in Brazil. Twelve years later, it was ranked first among the 5,570 municipalities in both primary and lower secondary education rankings. Public education in Sobral has one goal: every student must complete lower secondary education at the right age and with appropriate learning. The municipality placed education at the top of the political agenda and kept it out of politics. Its prioritized learning by establishing a clear intermediate target, ensuring all students are literate by the end of the second grade. It organized the education policy under four pillars: effective use of student assessment; focused curriculum with a clear learning sequence and prioritization of foundational skills; prepared and motivated teachers; and autonomous and accountable school management with school principals appointed through a meritocratic and technical selection process. The main aspects of the reforms are presented and discussed in this report.
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Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Education; Education Quality; Education Reform; Education for All; Literacy; Primary Education; Secondary Education; Student Performance

The State of Ceara in Brazil is a Role Model for Reducing Learning Poverty - Loureiro, Andre; Cruz, Louisee; Lautharte, Ildo; Evans, David K. (World Bank, 2020)
This report presents the case of the state of Ceara in Brazil that overcame adverse socioeconomic conditions to substantially improve education outcomes with efficient use of resources. Despite having the 5th lowest GDP per capita among the 26 Brazilian states, the 9-million-inhabitant state of Ceara has experienced the largest increase in the national education quality index in both primary and lower secondary education since 2005, with 10 municipalities of Ceara being among the top 20 national ranking, including Sobral which has the highest score. The state of Ceara pioneered the use of results-based financing as part of a comprehensive education reform program that among other elements included strong support to its municipalities to achieve universal literacy by the end of grade 2. The reforms allowed the state to considerably improve learning levels of students in primary and lower secondary education with a high level of efficiency in the use of resources. The main aspects of the reforms are presented and discussed.
Accepted: 2020-07-22T15:15:05Z KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1596/34156 2339240:AVNTZGZL 2405685:GTYUQIGH 4656463:KHGL8RB9
Keywords: Education Quality; Education Reform; Learning Poverty; Results-Based Financing; Secondary Education

Mauritania Fact Sheet - UNHCR (UNHCR, 2020)
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Roadmap for Digital Cooperation - United Nations (2020)
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Educational Television: A Rapid Evidence Review - Watson, Joe; McIntyre, Nora (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This Rapid Evidence Review (RER) gives an overview of the recent literature concerning how the use of educational television might support children’s learning in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In this review, educational television is defined as television designed with research-based knowledge of how children use and understand television that systematically incorporates academic or social curricula into its content. In low-income contexts, educational television material could be delivered through videos played in schools that are supported by corresponding teacher guidance (e.g. the Mexican school-based T elesecundaria programme), or broadcast on public channels (e.g. the Tanzanian animation, Ubongo Kids). As such, certain educational television projects are capable of functioning even in circumstances where access to formal schooling facilities is restricted. This review therefore provides information that is particularly valuable in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kenya Public Expenditure Review 2020: Options for Fiscal Consolidation after the COVID-19 Crisis - World Bank (World Bank, 2020)
The objective of this public expenditure review (PER) is to provide the government with options for fiscal consolidation and support macroeconomic stability in the medium-term. This PER addresses the broad topic of expenditure efficiency and examines options for expenditure rationalization to help return Kenya’s fiscal accounts to a prudent trajectory in the medium-term. The PER is being undertaken as a programmatic analytical product with two modules. The first module focuses on identifying options for expenditure rationalization and measures to strengthen within-year expenditure control for better expenditure management. The second module to be delivered in FY21 will focus on efficiency, effectiveness, and equity of spending within public services delivery sectors of education, health, and disaster risk financing. The report builds upon several other Bank-led reports that contribute to the discussion around improving public expenditure and strengthening expenditure controls in Kenya. It complements an ongoing governance for enabling service delivery and public investments in Kenya (GESDeK) project, which is at the forefront in supporting numerous reforms highlighted in this PER to improve efficiency in spending and strengthen expenditure controls. The report is organized as follows: chapter one contains the macro context, trends, and composition of spending, overall balance and debt. Chapter two contains the fiscal and debt sustainability analysis while chapter three presents options for expenditure rationalization in Kenya. Chapter four ties it all together with fiscal savings and policy recommendations.
Accepted: 2020-07-08T21:09:38Z KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1596/34052 2339240:6ZRFSFSD 2405685:7F9L42V9
Keywords: Debt Sustainability; Expenditure Control System; Fiscal Sustainability; Fiscal Trends; Public Debt; Public Expenditure; Public Investment Management; Public Procurement; Public Wage Bill; Revenue

Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution - Bachas, Pierre; Gadenne, Lucie; Jensen, Anders (2020)
Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once we account for informal consumption. Using household expenditure surveys in 32 countries we proxy for informal consumption using the type of store where purchases occur. We find that the budget share spent in informal stores steeply declines with income, so that the effective tax rate of a broad consumption tax rises with income. Our findings imply that the widespread policy of exempting food from taxation cannot be justified on equity grounds in low-income-countries.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at www.nber.org.
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Keywords: Anders Jensen; Consumption Taxes and Redistribution; Informality; Lucie Gadenne; Pierre Bachas; SSRN

Storytelling Planning Template - Dixon, , Miranda; Patuck, , Lil (EdTech Hub, 2020)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Moroccan Students Can Freely Access TelmidTICE Remote Learning Platform - Hatim, Yahia (Morocco World News, 2020)
Moroccan students can access the TelmidTICE remote learning platform without necessarily having an internet subscription.
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Supporting innovation in the time of COVID: What we've done and what we'll do next (EdTech Hub, 2020)
When COVID-19 emerged as a clear and present danger, we in the Hub innovation team were forced to rethink our plans for 2020. We previously told you about our work and how it looks to support and scale innovation with real people in real life. Now we had to reassess what this would look like and how it could be…
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A COVID-19 panacea in digital technologies? Challenges for democracy and higher education: - Burns, Ryan (Dialogues in Human Geography, 2020)
Universities have transitioned to online education in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. This transition mobilizes the technological utopian imaginary that d...
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Learning through radio and television in the time of COVID-19 - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2020)
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Learning through radio and television in times of COVID-19 - UNESCO (2020)
With an estimated 91.3 percent or 1.57 billion students out of school worldwide, ministers of education are executing their plans for school during disruptions related to COVID-19. Under the banner of learning continuity, many countries have slowly begun to use existing platforms, tools, and technologies for some form of interim learning by distance.
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Changes to aspects of ongoing randomised controlled trials with fixed designs - Coskinas, Xanthi; Simes, John; Schou, Manjula; Martin, Andrew James (Trials, 2020)
Despite careful planning, changes to some aspects of an ongoing randomised clinical trial (RCT), with a fixed design, may be warranted. We sought to elucidate the distinction between legitimate versus illegitimate changes to serve as a guide for less experienced clinical trialists and other stakeholders.
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Keywords: Bias; Design changes; Randomised control trials; Type 1 error

Open Education Resources in Africa: A Curated Resource List - Koomar, Saalim; Jull, Stephen (Zenodo, 2020)
This curated list defines open educational resources, offers background on open source licensing, and provides a review of OER relevant to the context of Ghana in response to an EdTech Hub helpdesk request. This document does not intend to set out a comprehensive list of OER used by teachers, students, parents or other stakeholders; rather, this document will identify exemplars of OER provided they are relevant to the Ghanaian context and focus on: reaching marginalised learners through offline or online content; reaching marginalised learners through mass media; using OER for teacher education; further useful resources and methods of implementing OER.
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Using EdTech in Settings of Fragility, Conflict and Violence: A Curated Resource List - Koomar, Saalim; Moss Coflan, Caitlin; Kaye, Tom (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This curated list of resources collates interventions that effectively deploy education technology in settings of fragility, conflict and violence (FCV). This list explores effective uses of EdTech in FCV settings, emphasising interventions and evidence relevant to the Yemeni context and distance learning during the Covid-19 crisis.
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How should we help the Covid19 cohorts make up the learning loss from lockdown? - Burgess, Simon (2020)
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Unequal access to remote schooling amid COVID-19 threatens to deepen global learning crisis - UNICEF (2020)
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Sierra Leone Free Education Project - World Bank (2020)
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A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis - Bozkurt, Aras; Jung, Insung; Xiao, Junhong; Vladimirschi, Viviane; Schuwer, Robert; Egorov, Gennady; Lambert, Sarah; Al-Freih, Maha; Pete, Judith; Don Olcott, Jr; Rodes, Virginia; Aranciaga, Ignacio; et al. (Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020)
Uncertain times require prompt reflexes to survive and this study is a collaborative reflex to better understand uncertainty and navigate through it. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic hit hard and interrupted many dimensions of our lives, particularly education. As a response to interruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this study is a collaborative reaction that narrates the overall view, reflections from the K12 and higher educational landscape, lessons learned and suggestions from a total of 31 countries across the world with a representation of 62.7% of the whole world population. In addition to the value of each case by country, the synthesis of this research suggests that the current practices can be defined as emergency remote education and this practice is different from planned practices such as distance education, online learning or other derivations. Above all, this study points out how social injustice, inequity and the digital divide have been exacerbated during the pandemic and need unique and targeted measures if they are to be addressed. While there are support communities and mechanisms, parents are overburdened between regular daily/professional duties and emerging educational roles, and all parties are experiencing trauma, psychological pressure and anxiety to various degrees, which necessitates a pedagogy of care, affection and empathy. In terms of educational processes, the interruption of education signifies the importance of openness in education and highlights issues that should be taken into consideration such as using alternative assessment and evaluation methods as well as concerns about surveillance, ethics, and data privacy resulting from nearly exclusive dependency on online solutions.
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HolonIQ LATAM EdTech 100 - HolonIQ (HolonIQ, 2020)
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Helping you find and compare EdTech tools (EdTech Hub, 2020)
We’re excited to publish the first version of a tool to help you find and compare EdTech tools. The EdTech Hub’s mission is to increase the use of evidence to inform decision-making about education technology. Right now, our focus is on helping you think about whether and how EdTech can help you respond to the challenges of the school closures…
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Learning in the COVID-19 era - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2020)
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Your Questions Answered: Using Technology to Support Gender Equity, Social Inclusion and Out-Of-School Learning - Allier-Gagneur, Zoé; Moss Coflan, Caitlin (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTech Hub participated in a Girls’ Education Challenge webinar in May 2020, which welcomed stakeholders from countries including the UK, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Nepal. The session focused on issues regarding gender and social inclusion during the Covid-19 crisis. This document provides answers to a list of 10 questions received from stakeholders.
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How much learning may be lost in the long-run from COVID-19 and how can mitigation strategies help? - Kaffenberger, Michelle (Brookings, 2020)
How much learning may be lost in the long-run from COVID-19 and how can mitigation strategies help?
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Use of adaptive computer assisted remediation programs to prevent student dropout in the context of COVID-19 - Angel-Urdinola, Diego (2020)
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Pakistan Topic Brief: Providing Distance Learning to Hard-to-reach Children - Baloch, Imdad; Kaye, Tom; Koomar, Saalim; McBurnie, Chris (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This brief explores the use of EdTech to support distance learning in Pakistan. Specifically, it explores ways to provide distance education to children in remote rural areas and urban slums.
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Pakistan Distance-Learning Topic Brief: Primary-level Deaf Children - Lynch, Paul; Kaye, Tom; Terlektsi, Emmanouela (EdTech Hub, 2020)
The Covid-19 crisis has severely impacted the ability of national education actors to provide access to education services for all students.This brief provides guidance and recommendations on how to support the education of deaf children in Pakistan using alternative learning approaches. It presents the rationale for adopting certain teaching and learning strategies when supporting the learning and well-being of deaf children during global uncertainty. Children with deafness and hearing loss are particularly vulnerable during school closures. They are isolated at home and unable to access information as easily as when attending school. This brief presents some of the practices that are reportedly working well for deaf children in different contexts.
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The Maldives and Sri Lanka: Question & Answer Session - Adam, Taskeen; Kaye, Tom; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTech Hub participated in a question and answer session in May 2020 for policymakers in The Maldives and Sri Lanka. The session focused on the challenges and issues in designing effective distance education programmes during the Covid-19 pandemic. This document provides answers to a list of 13 questions received from stakeholders.
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Simulating the Potential Impacts of the COVID-19 School Closures on Schooling and Learning Outcomes: A set of Global Estimates - Azevedo, J.P; Hasan, A; Goldemberg, D; Iqbal, S.A; Geven, K (World Bank, 2020)
Simulating the Potential Impacts of the COVID-19 School Closures and Learning Outcomes: A set of Global Estimates
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Simulating the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures on Schooling and Learning Outcomes: A Set of Global Estimates - Azevedo, João Pedro; Hasan, Amer; Goldemberg, Diana; Iqbal, Syedah Aroob; Geven, Koen (The World Bank, 2020)
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Build back better: Education must change after COVID-19 to meet the climate crisis - Giannini, Stefania (UNESCO, 2020)
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Education budget of Pakistan - Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education (2020)
Budget provide an apprehension into the Government’s policy priorities. Education receives a remarkable fragment of Federal and Provincial budgets every year.
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COVID-19 Could Lead to Permanent Loss in Learning and Trillions of Dollars in Lost Earnings - World Bank (World Bank, 2020)
COVID-19 Could Lead to Permanent Loss in Learning and Trillions of Dollars in Lost Earnings
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Online and ICT Facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls during COVID-19 - UN Women (2020)
Series: UN Women Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) COVID-19 Briefs Volume: 4 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.18356/b3f5cc80-en 2339240:Z2WC7C8X 2405685:XTFJJSKE

The Great Debate: Why Rwanda may be the Best Country to Launch and Scale Your Tech Startup! - Antoun, Nadine (Medium, 2020)
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Personalized learning and ESSA: what we know and where we go - Zhang, Ling; Yang, Sohyun; Carter, Richard, Jr (Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020)
The passage of the 2015, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), affords states funding for many new options to address the needs of learners. One of the prominent options is personalized learning (PL). This study sought to determine how states positioned PL in their state plans. This study used a qualitative research design to analyze state ESSA plans for presence of and relation to PL. From this analysis, four themes emerged, (a) definitions of PL, (b) goals of PL for students, (c) supports for PL, and (d) partnership for PL. The findings from this study suggested that many states contain aspects of PL in their state plans; however, there is little consensus of how to best implement PL. This article reported on these findings as well as offered guidance to policymakers and state departments of education on how to operationalize and implement PL.
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Trends in educational research about e-learning: a systematic literature review (2009–2018) - Valverde-Berrocoso, Jesús; Garrido-Arroyo, María del Carmen; Burgos-Videla, Carmen; Morales-Cevallos, María Belén (Sustainability, 2020)
The concept of e-learning is a technology-mediated learning approach of great potential from the educational perspective and it has been one of the main research lines of Educational Technology in the last decades. The aim of the present systematic literature review (SLR) was to identify (a) the research topics; (b) the most relevant theories; (c) the most researched modalities; and (d) the research methodologies used. To this end, the PRISMA protocol was followed, and diﬀerent tools were used for the bibliographic management and text-mining. The literature selection was carried out in three ﬁrst-quartile journals indexed in JCR-SSCI specialized in Educational Technology. A total of 248 articles composed the ﬁnal sample. The analysis of the texts identiﬁed three main nodes: (a) online students; (b) online teachers; and (c) curriculum-interactive learning environments. It was revealed that MOOC was the most researched e-learning modality. The Community of Inquiry and the Technological Acceptance Model, were the most used theories in the analyzed studies. The most frequent methodology was case study. Finally, the conclusions regarding the objectives of our SRL are presented: Main themes and research sub-themes, most researched e-learning modality, most relevant theoretical frameworks on e-learning, and typologies of research methodologies.
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How India responded: distance learning in the time of COVID-19 (EdTech Hub, 2020)
As schools began to close earlier in the year, at the EdTech Hub we started to look at how governments pivoted to distance learning, with a number of country case studies exploring this shift. While the full case studies will be released soon, this blog gives an overview of the first of these into India’s response. The onset of COVID-19…
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Building effective COVID-19 education response plans: Insights from Africa and Asia - Otieno, Jenn Cotter; Kimenyi, Eric; Kaye, Tom (EdTech Hub, 2020)
by Jenn Cotter Otieno, Eric Kimenyi and Tom Kaye As countries around the world rapidly respond to the educational challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic many countries have begun to leverage technology to provide educational continuity. We at the EdTech Hub are working with many countries to help them design interventions to support learning during this crisis. The first question…
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Adolescents (age 10 - 19) presenting with pregnancy at health facilities - Kenya Health Information System (KHIS) (African Institute for Development Policy, 2020)
Rates of adolescent pregnancy are once again on the rise in Kenya. The sudden surge threatens to cut short the pursuit for education and opportunities for especially vulnerable girls in the country.
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Commission Chair Gordon Brown’s keynote at the Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined WISE Summit - Education Commission (Education Commission, 2020)
It’s a real pleasure to speak to the WISE conference – to thank the Salzburg Global Seminar and WISE, particularly Sheikha Moza for organizing this, and to say that I thought that the initial remarks that we had from Asmaa and from Stavros were inspirational...
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COVID-19 and Human Development: Assessing the Crisis, Envisioning the Recovery - United Nations Development Programme (UN, 2020)
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COVID-19 and Human Development: Assessing the Crisis, Envisioning the Recovery - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, 2020)
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COVID-19 and e-learning: the challenges of students in tertiary institutions in Ghana - Aboagye, Emmanuel; Yawson, Joseph Anthony; Appiah, Kofi Nyantakyi (Social Education Research, 2020)
Problems associated with the transition from conventional learning (face to face) to online learning (e-learning) in the educational system are well documented. The present study explores the challenges students in tertiary institutions have reported facing in online learning in the era of coronavirus pandemic. Using a sample (n = 141), an initial principal component factor analysis was conducted to group the constructs. Eight groups that emerged were social issues, lecturer issues, accessibility issues, learner motivation, academic issues, generic issues, learner intentions, and demographics. Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the reliability of the scales resulting in the deletion of learner motivation. Comparing the means of the factors revealed that the most important challenge for students to study online was accessibility issues. This was followed by social issues, lecturer issues, academic issues, and generic issues. The mean for the individual items in learners’ intention to study online showed that students were not ready to study online. A Multiple Regression Analysis was further conducted to determine which factors pose the most important challenges to the student’s decision to study online. Social issues and lecturer issues were significant. In the final model, only lecturer issues were significant. A blended approach-where conventional teaching is combined with online teaching should have ushered the learners to complete online learning.
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EdTech in Pakistan: A Rapid Scan - Baloch, Imdad; Taddese, Abeba (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTech Hub country scans explore factors that enable and hinder the use of technology in education. This includes policies, government leadership, private-sector partnerships, and digital infrastructure for education. The scans are intended to be comprehensive but are by no means exhaustive; nonetheless, we hope they will serve as a useful starting point for more in-depth discussions about opportunities and barriers in EdTech in specific countries and in this case, Pakistan. This report was originally written in June 2020. It is based primarily on desk research, with quality assurance provided by a country expert.
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EdTech in Nigeria: A Rapid Scan - Dele-Ajayi, Opeyemi; Taddese, Abeba (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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EdTech in Zimbabwe: A Rapid Scan - Dzinotyiweyi, Monica; Taddese, Abeba (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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EdTech in Tanzania: A Rapid Scan - Groeneveld, Caspar; Taddese, Abeba (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTech Hub country scans explore factors that enable and hinder the use of technology in education. These factors include the policy or vision for EdTech, institutional capacity, private-sector partnerships, and the digital infrastructure. The scans are intended to be comprehensive but are by no means exhaustive; however, we hope they will serve as a useful starting point for more in-depth discussions about opportunities and barriers in EdTech in specific countries, in this case, Tanzania. This report was originally written in June 2020. It is based primarily on desk research, with quality assurance provided by a country expert.
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EdTech in Jordan: A Rapid Scan - Khalayleh, A.; Taddese, A. (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTech Hub country scans explore factors that enable and hinder the use of technology in education. This includes policies, government leadership, private-sector partnerships, and digital infrastructure for education. The scans are intended to be comprehensive but are by no means exhaustive; nonetheless, we hope they will serve as a useful starting point for more in-depth discussions about opportunities and barriers in EdTech in specific countries, in this case, in Jordan. This report was originally written in June 2020. It is based primarily on desk research, with quality assurance provided by a country expert.
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EdTech in Rwanda: A Rapid Scan - Kimenyi, Eric; Chuang, Rachel; Taddese, Abeba (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTech Hub country scans explore factors that enable and hinder the use of technology in education. This includes policies, government leadership, private-sector partnerships and digital infrastructure for education. The scans are intended to be comprehensive but are by no means exhaustive; nonetheless, we hope they will serve as a useful starting point for more in-depth discussions about opportunities and barriers in EdTech in specific countries and in this case, in Rwanda. This report was originally written in June 2020. It is based primarily on desk research, with quality assurance provided by a country expert
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Keywords: C:Rwanda; F: Country scan; LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v1; _zenodo:submitted; _zenodoETH

Effective Teacher Education in Low-Connectivity Settings: A Curated Resource List - Koomar, Saalim; Allier-Gagneur, Zoé; McBurnie, Chris (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This list curates resources — both tools and initiatives — that can be adapted to support teacher education in low-connectivity settings, a prevailing challenge in Madagascar. Each example identifies the challenges; necessary prerequisites; pros and cons and; costs and impact assessment data where possible.
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EdTech in Sierra Leone: A Rapid Scan - Mullan, Joel; Taddese, Abeba (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTech Hub country scans explore factors that enable and hinder the use of technology in education. This includes policies, government leadership, private sector partnerships, and digital infrastructure for education. The scans are intended to be comprehensive but are by no means exhaustive; nonetheless, we hope they will serve as a useful starting point for more in-depth discussions about opportunities and barriers in EdTech in specific countries and in this case, in Sierra Leone. This report is based primarily on desk research, with quality assurance provided by a country expert.
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Teachers’ use of new technologies in Latin America - OECD (Making the Most of Technology for Learning and Training in Latin America, 2020)
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EdTech in Kenya: A Rapid Scan - Otieno, J.; Taddese, A. (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTech Hub country scans explore factors that enable and hinder the use of technology in education. These factors include the policy or vision for EdTech, institutional capacity, private-sector partnerships, and the digital infrastructure. The scans are intended to be comprehensive but are by no means exhaustive; however, we hope they will serve as a useful starting point for more in-depth discussions about opportunities and barriers in EdTech in specific countries and, in this case, Kenya. This report was originally written in June 2020. It is based primarily on desk research, with quality assurance provided by a country expert.
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Keywords: C:Kenya; LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v1; _zenodoETH

EdTech in Ghana: A Rapid Scan - Taddese, A. (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTech Hub country scans explore factors that enable and hinder the use of technology in education. These factors include the policy or vision for EdTech, institutional capacity, private sector partnerships, and digital infrastructure. The scans are intended to be comprehensive but are by no means exhaustive; however, we hope they will serve as a useful starting point for more in-depth discussions about opportunities and barriers in EdTech in specific countries and, in this case, Ghana. This report is based primarily on desk research, with quality assurance provided by a country expert.
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Keywords: Access; C:Ghana; Distance learning; EdTech; LP: English; Online learning; Remote learning; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; ___working_potential_duplicate; _cover:v1; _zenodoETH

Close to Home: Evidence on the Impact of Community-Based Girl Groups - Temin, Miriam; Heck, Craig J. (Global Health: Science and Practice, 2020)
Purpose:Community-based programming to promote gender equity, often delivered through community-based girl groups (CBGGs, sometimes called “safe spaces”), is increasing. However, evidence is weak on how CBGGs are implemented and their effect on adolescent girls’ health and well-being. We conducted a comprehensive literature review to identify relevant CBGG programs. Methods:The review included programs with impact evaluations that used experimental or quasi-experimental design, data from 2 time points, control/comparison groups, and quantitative program effects and P values. Results:We analyzed evaluations of 30 programs (14 randomized controlled trials, 16 quasi-experimental). Although program designs varied, most programs targeted unmarried girls aged 13 to 18 years who were both in school and not in school, and who met weekly in groups of 15 to 25 girls. Nearly all programs used multisectoral approaches focusing on life skills and often economic and financial content, such as financial literacy and microsavings. Complementary activities with community members, boys, and health services were common. Across programs, evaluations reported statistically significant effects (P<.05) the majority (>50%) of times they measured outcomes related to gender and health attitudes and knowledge, education, psychosocial well-being, and economic and financial outcomes. Measures of outcomes related to girls’ health behaviors and health status had majority null findings. Conclusions:CBGG program evaluations found positive effects on girl-level outcomes that are independent of external factors, like gender norm attitudes, and suboptimal performance on health behavior and health status, which rely on other people and systems. This delivery model has promise for building girls’ assets. Complementary actions to engage girls’ social environments and structures are needed to change behaviors and health status.
Publisher: Global Health: Science and Practice Section: REVIEW KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00015 2405685:7TZMHJ2Q 2534379:NI3D9Q2E

Rolling Out a National Virtual Learning Environment - Adam, Taskeen; McBurnie, Chris; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
A virtual learning environment (VLE) is a virtual space designed to support teaching and learning and can resemble anything from a curated content repository to a synchronous video-enabled learning space. This technical note aims to inform the design and implementation of a VLE at a national level for basic education.
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Practical Lessons for Phone-Based Assessments of Learning - Angrist, Noam; Bergman, Peter; Evans, David K.; Hares, Susannah; Jukes, Matthew C. H.; Letsomo, Thato (BMJ Global Health, 2020)
School closures affecting more than 1.5 billion children are designed to prevent the spread of current public health risks from the COVID-19 pandemic, but they simultaneously introduce education risks as well as new, longer run health risks, via lost education. While some studies measure student involvement in educational activities during the crisis through phone-based surveys, the literature on assessing learning by phone is almost nonexistent, despite the fact that learning loss has major implications for school dropout and rising inequality. In this article, we draw on our pilot testing of phone-based assessments in Botswana, along with the existing literature on oral testing of reading and mathematics, to propose a series of preliminary principles to guide researchers and service providers as they try phone-based learning assessments. We provide guidance to help teams (1) ensure that children are not put at risk, (2) test the reliability and validity of phone-based measures, (3) use simple instructions and practice items to ensure the assessment is focused on the target skill, not general language and test-taking skills, (4) adapt the items from oral assessments that will be most effective in phone-based assessments, (5) keep assessments brief while still gathering meaningful learning data, (6) learn from the speed and confidence of responses, (7) use effective strategies to encourage respondents to pick up the phone, and (8) build rapport with adult caregivers and youth respondents.
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Practical Lessons for Phone-Based Assessments of Learning - Angrist, Noam; Bergman, Peter; Evans, David K.; Hares, Susannah; Jukes, Matthew C. H.; Letsomo, Thato (Center for Global Development, 2020)
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Digital transformation in the time of COVID-19: The case of MENA - Guermazi, Boutheina (2020)
In the MENA region, the demand for broadband services and data has increased significantly during the pandemic.
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Impact of pandemic COVID-19 on education in India - Jena, Pravat Kumar (International Journal of Current Research (IJCR), 2020)
The impact of pandemic COVID-19 is observed in every sector around the world. The education sectors of India as well as world are badly affected by this. It has enforced the world wide lock down creating very bad effect on the students’ life. Around 32 crore learners stopped to move schools/colleges and all educational activities halted in India. The outbreak of COVID-19 has taught us that change is inevitable. It has worked as a catalyst for the educational institutions to grow and opt for platforms with technologies, which have not been used before. The education sector has been fighting to survive the crises with a different approach and digitising the challenges to wash away the threat of the pandemic. This paper highlights some measures taken by Govt. of India to provide seamless education in the country. Both the positive and negative impacts of COVID-19 on education are discussed and some fruitful suggestions are also pointed to carry out educational activities during the pandemic situation.
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Keywords: COVID-19; Education; Govt. of India; impact; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Impact of Podcasting on Pronunciation Skills of Pre-Service EFL Teachers - Kafes, Huseyin; Caner, Mustafa (Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2020)
This explorative qualitative study investigates EFL freshmen's perception of the impact of creating pronunciation podcasts on their pronunciation skills. The study was conducted with the participation of 80 freshmen, enrolled in a Teaching English as a Foreign Language teacher education program at a Turkish state university. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, investigator notes, records of dashboard activities, analytics and performance tracking records of the LMS, and podcasts created by the participants as well as the recordings of the peer feedbacks on the discussion board. Analysis of the data was done through content analysis technique, presenting the thematized findings through analytical generalizations. Results have shown that the participants have positive views of creating pronunciation podcasts and that podcasting freed them to a great extent from the spatio-temporal limitations of the classroom, allowing them to study and practice pronunciation at their own convenience. The findings are discussed with reference to pronunciation, recommendations for EFL freshmen are made, and implications are offered.
Publisher: Anadolu University KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2405685:G4SSNAY6
Keywords: Audio Equipment; College Freshmen; Content Analysis; English (Second Language); Feedback (Response); Foreign Countries; Generalization; Independent Study; Language Teachers; Management Systems; Positive Attitudes; Preservice Teachers; Pronunciation; Pronunciation Instruction; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Student Attitudes; Teacher Education Programs; Teaching Methods; ⛔ No DOI found

Expert Consultation: Radio-Based Education in the Philippines - McBurnie, Chris (EdTech Hub, 2020)
These slides present an overview of educational radio programming with a particular focus on quality assurance and content design.
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Forum Guide to Data Governance - National Forum on Education Statistics (National Center for Education Statistics, 2020)
The Forum Guide to Data Governance highlights the multiple ways that data governance programs can benefit education agencies. It addresses the management, collection, use, and communication of education data; the development of effective and clearly defined data systems and policies to handle the complexity and necessary protection of data; and the continuous monitoring and decisionmaking needed in a regularly shifting data landscape. The Guide also features 12 case studies from state and local education agencies that have implemented effective data governance programs.
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Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) that Track Individual Student Data in Mongolia - UNICEF (UNICEF East Asia and the Pacific Regional Office, 2020)
Key recommendations provided in this report are to inform the further development of EMIS strategy and policy in Mongolia
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Review of Education Management Systems (EMIS) that Track Individual Student Data: Mongolia - UNICEF (UNICEF East Asia and the Pacific Regional Office, 2020)
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Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project - World Bank (2020)
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All Tanzania schools reopen amid strict virus protocols - AfricaNews (Africanews, 2020)
The government on the other hand has issued stringent measures to be followed even as schools are reopening to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus among students.
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The politics of education in post-colonies: Kreyòl in Haiti as a case study of language as technology for power and liberation - DeGraff, Michel (Journal of Postcolonial linguistics, 2020)
In this contribution, I would like to share some key aspects of my theoretical and applied linguistic agenda in Haiti. This agenda promotes a social vision where linguistics is coupled with digital technology in Haitian Creole (“Kreyòl”) in order to improve research and education toward sustainable development and equal opportunity for all. This agenda also aims at a model for other communities in the Global South where linguistic discrimination has disenfranchised large segments of the population most in need of socio-economic progress. This article will highlight the MIT-Haiti Initiative, whose initial objectives were for improving Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) education in high schools and universities in Haiti. In collaboration with a broad range of academic institutions in Haiti and beyond, this Initiative has been exploring the strategic use of digital tools in Kreyòl to improve Haitian students’ active learning of STEM, across social classes and beyond any linguistic barrier. More recently, the Initiative has expanded its scope to cover all disciplines at all levels via crowdsourcing, co-creating, curating and sharing of educational materials in Kreyòl. The ultimate goal is to make high-quality education accessible to the greatest numbers of students throughout Haiti, while strengthening the foundations of Haiti’s linguistic and cultural identity and while promoting respect of the human rights of all Haitians. I will consider two important implications of the MIT-Haiti Initiative: for linguistics and for policies related to education writ large, including education that can truly benefit all in Haiti, especially those who speak Kreyòl only (i.e., the vast majority of Haitians). Firstly, Kreyòl is comparable to so called “international” languages, such as English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, etc., in terms of its development, structures and expressive capacity. Indeed, the success of this Initiative to date doubles as proof of concept that Kreyòl is a full-fledged language with unlimited capacity to express any level of complex thought as in STEM. Secondly, Kreyòl is an essential tool for the education, socio-economic progress and human rights of Haitians, especially in these communities that have long been impoverished through exclusion and injustice. These processes of impoverishment, which started four centuries ago when Haiti was a French colony (then the “richest” colony in the Americas), have been unrelentless throughout Haiti’s history. Language and education are two main vectors for the entrenchment of these processes of exclusion and impoverishment in Haiti. In my view, it is through the innovative, strategic and systematic use of Kreyòl, in conjunction with interactive pedagogy and modern technology, that Haitian students can optimally develop their capacity for acquiring and building additional knowledge in STEM, in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and in second languages such as French, English, Spanish, etc. More generally, it is through Kreyòl as language of instruction and as the language of discourse in every social context that all Haitians can realize their full potential toward joyful and dignified citizenship—and leave behind the trauma of linguistic apartheid that has characterized the history of Haiti since its creation in 1804.
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Keyword inventory with country statistics - Haßler, Björn; Adam, Taskeen; Allier-Gagneur, Zoe; Khalayley, Abdullah; McBurnie, Chris; McIntyre, Nora (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Keyword inventory with country statistics (Updated July 2020)
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Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:analysis:nopdf; _yl:s; _zenodoODE; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Technology-Supported Personalised Learning: A Rapid Evidence Review - Major, Louis; Francis, Gill A. (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This publication is one part of a series of rapid evidence reviews that has been produced by the EdTech Hub. The purpose of the rapid evidence reviews is to provide education decision-makers with accessible evidence-based summaries of good practice in specific areas of EdTech. They are focused on topics which are particularly relevant in the context of widespread global challenges to formal schooling as a result of COVID-19. All the rapid evidence reviews are available at edtechhub.org.
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Strengths-based blended personalized learning: an impact study using virtual comparison group - McCarthy, Elizabeth M.; Liu, Ying; Schauer, Karen L. (Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020)
This study describes a strengths-based blended personalized learning model, the implementation of the model over a 4-year period, and the results of an impact study focused on measuring its effectiveness. The model includes many commonly-used features of personalized learning, including (a) competency-based progressions, (b) flexible learning environments, (c) personal learning paths, (d) frequently updated student profiles, and (e) frequent informal and formal measurement. However, it differs from other personalized learning models by including a focus on strengths-based learning. Strengths-based learning identifies and builds upon students’ strengths, supporting their ability to make informed decisions when setting goals and choosing and implementing learning experiences. The longitudinal study took place in a diverse mid-size pre-K to Grade 8 school district in California. The findings suggest that the strengths-based blended personalized learning model is effective in supporting student learning in the academic areas of mathematics, reading, and language usage. Over the 3-year period in which the intervention was gradually implemented, and one year of full implementation, students significantly outpaced their matched student counterparts in all subject areas. The results of the current study further the growing literature in the field of personalized learning by contributing learnings and evidence related to a successful personalized learning model.
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Keywords: Personalized learning; technology-enabled learning; virtual control group

Uncovering themes in personalized learning: using natural language processing to analyze school interviews - McHugh, David; Shaw, Sarah; Moore, Travis; Ye, Leafia; Romero-Masters, Philip; Halverson, Richard (Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020)
Using a natural language processing tool, this study examined participant discourse in personalized learning schools to better understand what personalized learning looks like in practice. Term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) was used to identify the significant words and potential emergent themes for 134 interview transcripts. This tool provided a way to swiftly explore the structure of the data, revealing distinctions in the vocabulary students and teachers use as well as a potentially meaningful set of themes. This method provided a valuable lens with which to validate or surface new areas for investigation. By applying this tool to interviews from personalized learning environments, we were able to identify ways educators and students talk differently about project-based learning environments, revealing that tools like tf-idf can be effectively used to quickly provide a preliminary look at large amount of interview data.
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Appraising research on personalized learning: definitions, theoretical alignment, advancements, and future directions - Walkington, Candace; Bernacki, Matthew L. (Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020)
This article introduces a special issue comprising research on efforts to personalize learning in different academic subjects. We first consider the emergence of personalized learning (PL) and the myriad of definitions that describe its essential features. Thereafter, we introduce the articles in the special issue by examining their alignment to extant theories of learning, the instructional design features that personalize the learning experience based on a learner characteristic, and the relationships between PL design and outcomes achieved in an educational context. Based on observations of contemporary PL research, we identify key issues to be addressed by the field and recommendations for future researchers to undertake to advance a PL theory. Chief among issues with PL are the role of technology, the agency of the learner, and the absence of a consistent theoretical grounding to motivate PL design choices. Future directions that would advance PL include the adoption of a theory of change in PL design, a design-based research approach to refine PL initiatives, more intensive and iterative research in authentic classroom contexts, and a greater focus on student input into and ownership of the PL experience.
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Part 2: Frameworks for Conditional Grants to Provinces: Detailed frameworks on Schedule 4, Part A; Schedule 5, Part A; Schedule 6, Part A; and Schedule 7, Part A grants to provinces - Government of the Republic of South Africa (Government of the Republic of South Africa, 2020)
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The relationship between educational television and mathematics capability in Tanzania - Watson, Joseph (University of Cambridge, 2020)
Previous studies have frequently demonstrated that educational television viewing can have a positive effect on learning in low-income country contexts when shows are delivered in controlled settings. However, the consequence of day-to-day viewing in such contexts has scarcely been considered. Additionally, no recent published research has provided any information on the costs of educational television. The lack of research in these areas is striking. Examining educational television viewing in monitored settings provides limited information on the influence of routine television consumption. Further, the broad reach of numerous educational television programmes should provide low per-viewer costs and, resultantly, strong cost-effectiveness findings. This PhD study therefore examined (1) the association between educational television exposure and mathematics capability and (2) the cost effectiveness of educational television interventions. To achieve this, research was carried out that centred on Ubongo Kids – a popular Tanzanian-produced show delivering mathematics-focused content. Quantitative investigation into the association between educational television exposure and mathematics capability used nationally representative data, collected by Uwezo Tanzania. A household fixed-effects model showed that exposure to educational television was significantly associated with mathematics capability among children aged 7-16, when controlling for age, sex, school enrolment and Kiswahili attainment. Findings from this model were used in cost-effectiveness calculations, alongside cost data and an estimate of the number of Ubongo Kids viewers. Results compared favourably against those for other interventions, with calculations regarding Ubongo Kids’ ongoing activities suggesting it to have been more cost effective than any other intervention previously investigated using the same cost-effectiveness approach. These findings indicate that in low-income contexts: educational television programmes can aid learning; and, that directing a greater proportion of available educational resources towards educational television interventions may benefit educational outcomes.
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Distance Learning as a Tool for System Resilience - EducationLinks (2020)
Find related information on EducationLinks at https://www.edu-links.org/events/dist.... COVD19 has had an unprecedented impact on educational systems across the world and required school systems to pivot to remote learning in mass. This panel discussion webinar explored the lessons learned, opportunities and challenges presented by this shift, and identified ways that distance learning modalities can continue to contribute to making educational systems more flexible, adaptable and inclusive of students who may be poorly served by traditional models. Experts from EDC, EdTech Hub, WorldReader and USAID/Egypt shared their insights on how distance learning can strengthen educational outcomes for students across the sector. This event was part of the Global Education Learning Series, learn more about the series at https://www.edu-links.org/LearningSeries
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Systems Implications for Core Instructional Support Lessons from Sobral (Brazil), Puebla (Mexico), and Kenya - Crouch, Luis (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2020)
As this note was being written in April and May 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic was sweeping the world. Children were out of school. Researchers around the world are now estimating a severe learning gap due to loss of school attendance. While the first priority is getting children back to school safely, the discussion in this note regarding foundational learning is all the more relevant, as it is this kind of learning that is likely most affected. Key Points The case studies in this document highlight five tips that may be beneficial to other countries or situations: Focus on just a very few achievable indicators, foregrounding foundational learning, for a country emphasising learning. Use data to drive both initial “wake-up” and stock taking but also to support teaching as the process goes along. Emphasis on the teaching by the teachers who are already in place. Provide strong motivation through support that works. Use tight management so there is some degree of centralism and prescriptiveness as to pedagogy and other inputs, but after having iterated and adapted to context.
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Using EdTech to Support Effective Data Monitoring: A Curated Resource List - Koomar, Salim; Blest, Harriet (2020)
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Opportunities for Adolescent Girls and the Role of Girls' Groups - Briggs, Hannah; Haberland, Nicole; Desai, Sapna; De Hoop, Thomas; Ngo, Thoai (Evidence Consortium on Women's Groups, 2020)
COVID-19 has disrupted lives, networks, and institutions across social, economic, and health dimensions around the globe. We examine how the pandemic has affected adolescent girls and young women in particular, and explore how group-based programs for girls in low-and middle-income countries have been affected by and are responding to the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected adolescent girls and young women across multiple outcomes, including education, livelihoods, sexual and reproductive health, sexual- and gender-based violence, the burden of unpaid care, and early and forced marriage. These heightened barriers to economic and social opportunities and the resulting loss of human capital have the potential to derail progress towards gender equality unless recognized and addressed. Girls’ groups may offer potential pathways of resilience for girls during system shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic, though more evidence is needed on their effects and how they function when social connectivity and mobility are heavily restricted, limiting program implementation.
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Leaving no one behind: technology and the education sector response to COVID-19 in Rwanda (EdTech Hub, 2020)
By Ernest Ngabonzima, Roberte Isimbi, Marie Merci Mwali, Arnaldo Pellini A swift policy response When COVID-19 reached Rwanda, the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) was quick to shut schools and make use of technology to support and enable distance learning. This includes e-learning platforms and the use of private and public media channels. The first teaching radio programmes were introduced just…
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Is there learning continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic? Six Lessons - McBurnie, Chris; Haßler, Björn (2020)
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What's the difference between asynchronous and synchronous learning? - Scheiderer, Juliana (Ohio State Online, 2020)
How do online classes work? We tapped online learning experts to explain the pros and cons of synchronous vs. asynchronous learning.
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The coronavirus effect on Pakistan’s digital divide - Zahra-Malik, Mehreen (BBC Worklife, 2020)
Coronavirus has rammed home the extent of Pakistan’s digital divide. Could it lead to a useful debate about the future of technology in education?
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Five lessons learnt from Bangladesh's experience responding to COVID-19 - Sarwar, Mohammad Afzal Hossain,; Hossain, Iqbal; Kaye, Tom (EdTech Hub, 2020)
by Md. Afzal Hossain Sarwar (a2i), Iqbal Hossain (UNICEF Bangladesh) and Tom Kaye (EdTech Hub) In recent months, the EdTech Hub has produced a range of documents to support and guide countries as they develop and implement plans to help students keep learning during school closures. Some of the work we have produced includes: a guide to a five-part response…
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TV-Based Learning in Bangladesh: Is it Reaching Students? - World Bank (2020)
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Alternative forms of early grade instructional coaching: Emerging evidence from field experiments in South Africa - Cilliers, Jacobus; Fleisch, Brahm; Kotze, Janeli; Mohohlwane, Nompumelelo; Taylor, Stephen; Thulare, Tshegofatso (2020)
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Barriers to online learning in the time of COVID-19: A national survey of medical students in the Philippines - Baticulon, Ronnie E.; Alberto, Nicole Rose I.; Baron, Maria Beatriz C.; Mabulay, Robert Earl C.; Rizada, Lloyd Gabriel T.; Sy, Jinno Jenkin; Tiu, Christl Jan S.; Clarion, Charlie A.; Reyes, John Carlo B. (medRxiv, 2020)
Transgenic mice expressing genetically encoded activity indicators are an attractive means of mapping mesoscopic regional functional cortical connectivity given widespread stable and cell-specific expression compatible with chronic recordings. Cortical functional connectivity was evaluated using wide-field imaging in lightly anesthetized Emx1-creXRosa26-GCaMP3 mice expressing calcium sensor in cortical neurons. Challenges exist because green fluorescence signals overlap with endogenous activity-dependent autofluorescence and are affected by changes in blood volume and oxygenation. Under the conditions used for imaging and analysis (0.1–1 Hz frequency band), autofluorescence and hemodynamic effects contributed 3% and 8% of the SD of spontaneous activity-dependent GCaMP3 fluorescence when signals were recorded through intact bone. To evaluate the accuracy and sensitivity of this approach, the topology of functional connections between somatomotor cortex (primary S1 and secondary S2 somatosensory, and primary motor cortex M1) was estimated. During sequences of spontaneous activity, calcium signals recorded at each location of area S1 were correlated with activity in contralateral area S1, ipsilateral area S2, and bilateral areas M1. Reciprocal results were observed when “seed pixels” were placed in S2 and M1. Coactivation of areas implies functional connections but could also be attributed to both regions receiving common upstream drive. These apparent connections revealed during spontaneous activity coactivation by GCaMP3 were confirmed by intracortical microstimulation but were more difficult to detect using intrinsic signals from reflected red light. We anticipate GCAMP wide-field imaging will enable longitudinal studies during plasticity paradigms or after models of CNS disease, such as stroke, where the weighting within these connectivity maps may be altered.
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