Lessons learned from the massive shift to online learning due to COVID-19
The surge in online learning in the People’s Republic of China during the coronavirus outbreak highlights the importance of infrastructure
Bahamas’ Institute benefits from eCom Scotland eAssessment Platform
With over half its multi-million dollar revenue regularly coming from clients outside the UK, the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland is used to working with organisations in far-flung, often exotic and, sometimes, remote parts of the world. Among these is the far-from remote but no-less-exotic Bahamas, where one of its professional institutes is benefiting from using eCom’s eAssessment platform with the hundreds of students studying for qualifications on its 16 or so regular programmes.
Three ways to enhance student assessments
a holistic national student assessment system can be a colossal undertaking
Factbox: From e-commerce to education, China’s season of regulatory crackdown
China’s months-long regulatory crackdown on an array of private companies has unsettled tech upstarts as well as decades-old firms, ushering in a new, uncertain environment.
Chinese tutoring firms could spin-off units, boost non-academic tutoring – analysts
Battered by a regulatory crackdown, China’s multi-billion dollar private tutoring sector could seek to separate its business segments and bulk up non-academic tutoring as it tries to soften the blow on its operations, analysts said on Monday.
Developed East Asia soars in math and science test results
Students from developed East Asia are leading the world in math and science according to just-published results of exams delivered to 600,000
How post-pandemic education systems can welcome back international students
Closed borders and health concerns halted international student mobility in 2020, but students are expected to return. Education policy makers need to be ready for a new type of international student that wants both physical and digital learning opportunities.
Here’s how governments can reduce the impacts of Asia’s devastating flash floods
Flash floods have increased and become more unpredictable, and their toll on lives and livelihoods is growing as well. There is much we still don’t know about how to manage floods, but there are key policy actions we can take now.
When we evaluate development projects, we must ask: What lessons have we learned?
As children, we all remember being told: “‘I hope you’ve learned your lesson”, which had a kind of negative connotation. In my line of work, however, which assesses development activities from the point of view of doing the right things in the right way with the right resources for lasting benefits for people – we learn lessons every day to make better decisions for improving quality of lives.
3 ways Asia can inspire learning through skills, tech, artificial intelligence
Developing world that it will displace human workers with automation and artificial intelligence (AI)
