How can the different stakeholders such as the government, schools and teachers ensure that the challenges associated with the shift to online learning are addressed? Include ICT-based solutions in your answer.
2. Using the critical thinking steps and your own skills, read the text below and answer the question that follows:
“Amid the coronavirus pandemic, educational institutions face an unprecedented situation. Unable to meet in classrooms, learners and teachers have had to react to shifting circumstances and formulate strategies for alternatives such as online learning. In South Africa, moving courses online presents learners and teachers with challenges and opportunities.
Like other sectors of society, South Africa’s education system is unequal. Some schools are funded, others aren’t. Too many schools can’t move curricula online, because there’s no, or not enough, infrastructure to do so. If schools can move courses online, many learners won’t have the ability to sustainably access them because they lack laptops, or because the costs of data are too high. The current necessity for a shift towards online learning reminds us that although we live in the same country, we don’t share the same resources.“
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How can the different stakeholders such as the government, schools and teachers ensure that the challenges associated with the shift to online learning are addressed? Include ICT-based solutions in your answer.
Coronavirus pandemic has affected the lives of humans adversely. From health perspective to financial perspective, everything is affected. Education sector is greatly affected by this pandemic. Students can no more freely come to schools or colleges the way they used to do in the pre-covid era. In order to continue the education of students, it is the need of the hour to switch to technologies that can help in continuing the education of the students. But as the passage rightly says, not everyone share the resources equally. Laptops and data can rightly seem a costly affair to the family of the students. It is definitely a challenge to overcome all these factors in order to continue student's education. Some of the methods that can be used to overcome these challenges are listed below.
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