Theme: COVID-19 and Education

UNESCO INRULED, UNESCO IITE, Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University and other partners have jointly released the handbook entitled “Guidance on Active Learning at Home during Educational Disruption: Promoting… Read more UNESCO INRULED and UNESCO IITE launched a new Guidance on Active Learning at Home during Educational Disruption

As education in schools and universities is facing unprecedented challenges, UNESCO IITE in cooperation with its global partners are coming together to build up the longer-term resilience of education systems…. Read more Launching the crash course on online tutoring for teachers

Around 63 million primary and secondary teachers around the world are affected by school closures in 165 countries due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They are on the frontlines of the… Read more Teacher Task Force calls to support 63 million teachers touched by the COVID-19 crisis

As school closures impact nearly 80% of the world’s student population, UNESCO on 23 March convened an online meeting of an ad hoc group of education ministers who shared information… Read more 1.37 billion students now home as COVID-19 school closures expand, ministers scale up multimedia approaches to ensure learning continuity

As of March 18, over 850 million children and youth – roughly half of the world’s student population – had to stay away from schools and universities due to the… Read more COVID-19: with half of world’s student population out of school, UNESCO launches coalition to accelerate remote learning solutions

On March 20th, the Google for Education team in partnership with UNESCO IITE have launched a new Teach From Home platform to help teachers in different parts of the world… Read more Google in partnership with UNESCO IITE have launched a new Teach From Home platform

According to UNESCO monitoring, over 100 countries have implemented nationwide closures, impacting over half of world’s student population. Several other countries have implemented localized school closures. UNESCO is working with… Read more COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response