Online schooling prepares learners for the digital and virtual work environment

This involves a comprehensive assessment of factors: accreditation, curriculum the quality of interactive learning and support services

Most of SA’s youth will be left behind without investment in technology and infrastructure to support online learning from basic education up

Just what they’ll learn or be taught will be outside the curriculum, which may have to happen later

Children are expected to keep learning at home during the coronavirus lockdown, but a lack of resources makes this a tricky prospect for some of them

Forcing students to study online perpetuates inequalities and stress that not even academics are prepared for

Without the means to leverage lockdown as a time to grow, Covid-19 reinforces how access to data remains a barrier to young people’s progress

WIth classes being cancelled due to the outbreak of the virus, the academic enterprise can be salvaged through the use of technology

A free online platform that aims to accelerate the advancement of South African schools, wants to reconnect former students and their old schools

Technology will constantly change the working world and institutions need to get the message

Distance education opens the gates of knowledge but the rights of the authors may be threatened.

Fears of the ‘digital divide’ are unfounded: a blended mode has proven itself to students.

If Bill Gates is excited about online education, you should be, too, suggests <b>Anna Malczyk</b>.