Ask any teacher, student, administrator, or parent of school-aged kids, and they’ll tell you that the end of the 2019-2020 school year has looked a whole lot different than it at the beginning. The impact of COVID-19 on education systems around the world has been stark. Millions of students traded classrooms for Zoom chats, and educators at nearly every level are have struggled to adapt to a completely new way of educating young people. As this unprecedented school year winds down and (hopefully) the global pandemic does as well, educators are left with a lot of new information to absorb about the effectiveness of online education curriculum, tools, and pedagogical theory before classes resume again in the fall. No one knows exactly what awaits in September and in the years beyond, but there are predictions that can be made based on trends already in place leading up to school closures, and the implications of the developments over the last few months. Brainly’s Chief Business Officer, Eric Oldfield, is an expert in online education trends and a father of two school-age children himself. He’s compiled five predictions for the future of learning in a post-COVID world. “To say that these are unprecedented times is an understatement,” Oldfield said. “Even as we all grapple with the only constant in this environment being change, there are some very clear trends that have the potential to fundamentally shift the way we educate people of all ages around the world.”
Only time will tell what actual lasting impacts this global pandemic will have on the future of learning and education in the U.S. and beyond, and these are just a few of the ways COVID-19 may impact the short and long-term evolution of education online and offline. |
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