I am very pleased to share with PASCAL subscribers, a document produced by the Covid Education Alliance (COVIDEA), entitled, Adapting education systems to a fast changing and increasingly digital world through the use of appropriate technologies - A primer.
The COVID Education Alliance [1] (COVIDEA) seeks to make digital tools and related resources more easily available to policy makers, educators and learners worldwide, to help transform education systems and make them fit for a rapidly and increasingly digital, complex and interconnected world. COVIDEA is jointly convened by the Platform for Transformative Technologies (P4TT) and the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability [2] (FOGGS), and benefits from the support of the International Science Council [3] (ISC) – for background on these organizations and on the current COVIDEA members see Annexes of the Primer.
COVIDEA was established in response to the systemic problems associated with the way we teach and learn, laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic: education systems around the world have not as yet fully transitioned to the digital age, nor are they equipped to respond to external shocks, with vast differences in connectivity and digital opportunities exacerbating the problems for the poorer and more remote segments of society. Going beyond modernizing education systems through the use of appropriate digital tools, COVIDEA also aspires to rethink education as a major enabler of individual well-being.