The COVID-19 has caused schools all across the world to close. Over 1.2 billion youngsters are out of school worldwide.
As a result, education has undergone significant transformations, with the rise of e-learning, in which instruction is done remotely and via digital platforms.
According to research, online learning increases information retention and takes less time, implying that the alterations created by the coronavirus are here to stay.
While countries’ COVID-19 infection rates vary, more than 1.2 billion children in 186 countries are being affected by school cancellations as a result of the pandemic. Children up to the age of 11 in Denmark are returning to nurseries and schools after being closed on March 12th, but kids in South Korea are answering to roll calls from their teachers through the internet.
With the abrupt shift away from the classroom in many parts of the world, some are wondering if online learning adoption would continue post-pandemic, and how such a shift might affect the global education industry. Children up to the age of 11 are returning to nurseries and schools in Denmark after being closed on March 12th, but kids in South Korea are answering roll calls from their teachers through the internet.
Even before COVID-19, education technology was seeing rapid expansion and adoption, with worldwide edtech investments reaching US$18.66 billion in 2019 and the whole industry for online education expected to reach $350 billion by 2025. Since COVID-19, there has been a considerable increase in the utilization of language apps, virtual tutoring, video conferencing tools, and online learning software.
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Since COVID-19, there has been a considerable increase in the utilization of language apps, virtual tutoring, video conferencing tools, and online learning software.
Meanwhile, Tencent Classroom has been in heavy usage since mid-February, when the Chinese government ordered a quarter-billion full-time students to resume their studies via online platforms. With around 730,000, or 81 per cent of K-12 students, attending classes via the Tencent K-12 Online School in Wuhan, this resulted in the largest “online movement” in the history of education.
Other businesses are expanding their capacities in order to create a one-stop-shop for teachers and students. For example, Lark, a Singapore-based collaboration suite that began as an internal tool for ByteDance to meet its own exponential growth, began offering teachers and students unlimited video conferencing time, auto-translation capabilities, real-time co-editing of project work, and smart calendar scheduling, among other features. Lark increased its global server infrastructure and technical capabilities to assure dependable connectivity in a hurry and during a catastrophe. This led to the largest “online movement” in educational history, with around with approximately 730,000, or 81% of K-12 students participating.
Other businesses are expanding their capacities in order to create a one-stop shop for teachers and students. For example, Lark, a Singapore-based collaboration suite that began as an internal tool for ByteDance to meet its own exponential growth, began offering teachers and students unlimited video conferencing time, auto-translation capabilities, real-time co-editing of project work, and smart calendar scheduling, among other features. Lark increased its global server infrastructure and technical capabilities to assure dependable connectivity in a hurry and during a catastrophe.
DingTalk, Alibaba’s distant learning offering, had to plan for a similar surge: According to DingTalk CEO Chen Hang, “To accommodate large-scale remote work, the platform leveraged Alibaba Cloud to build more than 100,000 new cloud servers in just two hours last month — setting a new record for rapid capacity expansion.”
Some school districts are forging unusual collaborations, such as the one formed by the Los Angeles Unified School District and PBS SoCal/KCET to provide local educational broadcasts with several channels geared toward different ages and a variety of digital possibilities. Virtual learning is also supported by media companies such as the BBC; Bitesize Daily, which debuted on April 20, offers 14 weeks of curriculum-based learning for children across the UK, with celebrities such as Manchester City footballer Sergio Aguero teaching some of the content.