Design principles for fostering pedagogical provenance through research in technology supported learning - Turvey, Keith; Pachler, Norbert (Computers & Education, 2020)
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Framework for reopening of schools in the Caribbean including schools for learners with special education needs - UNESCO (2020)
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Global education monitoring report, 2020: Inclusion and education: all means all - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2020)
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Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future (O3): Making positive sexual and reproductive health and education outcomes a reality for adolescents and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. - UNESCO (2020)

Sierra Leone | Education and Literacy Statistics - UNESCO (2020)
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COVID-19: Pathways for the Return to Learning - UNHCR AEWG (UNHCR Accelerated Education Working Group, 2020)
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Education Sector Analysis of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Assessing the enabling environment for gender equality - UNICEF (UNICEF, 2020)
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Republic of Sierra Leone: Education sector analysis: assessing the enabling environment for gender equality - UNICEF (2020)
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What Have We Learnt? - UNICEF (Paris, New York, Washington DC: UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, 2020)

A Survey on Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Young People and Their Needs - UNICEF; Children and Youth Council of Thailand; UNDP; UNFPA (2020)
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UN Flagship Report Disability - United Nations (2020)
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Schools ICT project - Universal Access Development Fund (Sierra Leone) (2020)
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Universal Access Development Fund | Home - Universal Access Development Fund (Sierra Leone) (2020)
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Uso de repositórios de recursos educacionais abertos nas práticas pedagógicas: uma revisão sistemática - Universidade Federal de Brasília (Brasil); Ferreira Borges, Flavio; Teixeira, Janaína Angelina; Universidade de Brasília (Brasil); Osuna Acedo, Sara; Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España) (RELATEC Revista Latinoamericana de Tecnología Educativa, 2020)

Delivering Distance Learning in Emergencies - USAID (2020)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Interactive Radio and Audio Instruction Resources: Liberia - USAID (2020)
The following interactive radio and audio instruction resources are provided by programs that have been implemented in Liberia. Each program includes a description and a file set that can be used as part of a distance learning approach. , Related Looking for options for distance or audio education for your country? Submit Request , Liberia Teacher Training Program II FHI 360’s Liberia Teacher Training Program II (LTTP II, 2010-16) addressed Liberia’s critical shortages of qualified teachers and institutional capacity to produce new teachers.
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Are Our Children Learning? The Status of Remote-learning among School-going Children in Kenya during the Covid-19 Crisis. - Uwezo Kenya (Uwezo, 2020)
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Keywords: _COVID-Continuity-Blogpost-01; _COVID_DEAA-List

Roof Lighting with Recycled Plastic Bottles - Valera Terreros, Nancy; Espinoza Díaz, Daniel (Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Lighting, 2020)
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Lectoescritura inicial (LEI): una transición con sentido - Vijil-Morin, Alejandra (2020)
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Pedagogía del abrazo: una propuesta educativa - Vijil-Morin, Alejandra (2020)
La alfabetización es una experiencia transformadora a nivel cognitivo, biológico, emocional y político, pero ¿Cómo están aprendiendo lxs niñxs a leer y escribir en Nicaragua? ¿Cómo se reflejan las políticas educativas del régimen en pruebas estandarizadas de desempeño lector? ¿Qué esperanza le queda a un país empobrecido; a una infancia cargada de traumas, violencia, pandemias; a un sistema educativo rehén de la dictadura? En este escrito me gustaría rescatar la importancia de la alfabetización a través de una revisión de investigaciones; luego, dejar en evidencia las carencias de una administración educativa que se jacta de haber superado el analfabetismo. Y, finalmente, proponer una alternativa sencilla pero profundamente política para transformar la educación en Nicaragua: un abrazo.
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; ⛔ No DOI found

A multilevel study into the effect of tablet use in Dutch primary schools on reading achievements - Wafelaar, F. D. (2020)
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Inclusion in Practice: An explanatory study of how patterns of classroom discourse shape processes of educational inclusion in Tanzanian secondary school classrooms - Walker, Lisa Beth (University of Cambridge, 2020)
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Keywords: _C:Albania ALB; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Brunei Darussalam BRN; _C:Germany DEU; _C:India IND; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Lesotho LSO; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Malta MLT; _C:Morocco MAR; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Peru PER; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:Seychelles SYC; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Syrian Arab Republic SYR; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Cost Measurement Guidance Note for Donor-Funded Education Programming. - Walls, Elena; Tulloch, Caitlin; Holla, Alaka (United States Agency for International Development, prepared for Building Evidence in Education (BE2), 2020)
The guidance note’s fundamental objective is to facilitate the adoption of robust cost measurement practices and for the results to improve the effectiveness of global investments in education development among funders and national governments. The closing section of the note presents recommended steps for instituting cost measurement practices in an international donor agency. Harmonizing cost measurement across the entire global sector will increase its value by allowing for comparisons of cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness of interventions funded by different donors. Similar to international standards for evaluation studies, adopting clear standards for cost studies would allow us to build and use the knowledge base and ultimately improve the efficiency and effectiveness of international investments in education.
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Comprehensive sexuality education in sub-Saharan Africa: adaptation and implementation challenges in universal access for children and adolescents - Wangamati, Cynthia Khamala (Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Short summary report for Realdania - Wargocki, Pawel (International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, 2020)
Summary of the research on how thermal, air quality, noise reduction, lighting, and daylighting improvements in classrooms benefit children’s educational attainments
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The full report of Realdania - Wargocki, Pawel; Wyon, David P (International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy., 2020)
This report summarises published research on how children’s performance of schoolwork in primary and secondary schools and their subsequent educational attainments are affected by classroom temperature, air quality, noise, and lighting. The main conclusions (Items 1-20) are set out below as unequivocal statements that are validated by the findings of the detailed reviews of research published that form the bulk of the report, or by the findings of research published since those reviews were written and in some cases published. Bibliographic references to the original research reports are to be found in each detailed review or in the list that appears below. To each statement has been added brief comments based on other relevant findings noted in the reviews. A short list of what is NOT yet known about the effects of each indoor climate factor is then appended (Items 5, 10, 15, and 20), the implications for energy conservation (Items 21-25) and priorities for future research in this area (Items 26-30) are suggested. This report’ssummaryisprovidedseparatelywiththecurrentrecommendations and requirements of indoor environmental quality conditions in schools. Four appendixes contain detailed reviews based on which the present report was prepared.
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RECOVR Sierra Leone: Tracking the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic - Warren, Shana; Parkerson, Doug; Collins, Elliott (Innovations for Poverty Action, 2020)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Realising ‘dialogic intentions’ when working with a microblogging tool in secondary school classrooms - Warwick, Paul; Cook, Victoria; Vrikki, Maria; Major, Louis; Rasmussen, Ingvill (Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 2020)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.lcsi.2019.100376 2129771:L5383BKB
Keywords: __C:filed:1

The Washington Group / UNICEF Child Functioning Module (CFM) - Washington Group; UNICEF (2020)
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Learning through television in low-income contexts: mitigating the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) [EdTech Hub Blog] - Watson, Joe (The EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. Written by Joe Watson, research assistant at the University of Cambridge One of the many consequences of COVID-19 is that more than a billion caregivers will soon face the stark (and often scary) realisation that they must become their children’s teachers. This will be particularly …
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The relationship between educational television and mathematics capability in Tanzania - Watson, Joseph; Hennessy, Sara; Vignoles, Anna (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/bjet.13047 4804264:6BNTBWJK
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Education for All? Complex solutions to complex problems in the Nigerian education sector - Waziri, Nafisa (2020)

SAVE THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL - Wc, London (2020)
An estimated 99% of children worldwide – or more than 2.3 billion children – live in one of the 186 countries that have implemented some form of restrictions due to COVID-191. Although children are not at a high risk of direct harm from the virus, they are disproportionately affected by its hidden impacts.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Girls’ Education and EdTech: A Rapid Evidence Review - Webb, Daniel; Barringer, Katie; Torrance, Rebecca; Mitchell, Joel (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Girls’ Education and EdTech: A Rapid Evidence Review - Webb, Daniel; Barringer, Katie; Torrance, Rebecca; Mitchell, Joel (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This Rapid Evidence Review (RER) provides an overview of the existing literature on the use of technology in supporting girls’ education in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The RER has been produced in response to the novel 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19), and the resulting widespread global shutdown of schools. It therefore has an emphasis on transferable insights that may be applicable to educational responses resulting from the limitations to the continuation of schooling caused by COVID-19. Established approaches to maintaining continuity of education for the most marginalised have particular salience during this period because of the significant increase in the number of students at risk of disruption. Research consistently shows that while education across the board is negatively affected by crisis situations, the schooling of girls is disproportionately impacted. The RER aims neither to advocate nor discourage the use of technology in girls’ education in response to the present COVID-19 pandemic, but rather to provide an accessible summary of existing evidence on the topic so that educators, policy makers and donors might make informed decisions about the potential role of technology in delivering education for girls.
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COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, 1st Dec 2020 - WHO (WHO, 2020)
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Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States - Wikipedia (Wikipedia, 2020)
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Cost-effective approaches to improve global learning: What does recent evidence tell us are “Smart Buys” for improving learning in Low and Middle Income Countries? - World Bank (2020)
Cost-Effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning : What Does Recent Evidence Tell Us Are “Smart Buys” for Improving Learning in Low and Middle Income Countries? (English)
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Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review

COVID-19 Could Lead to Permanent Loss in Learning and Trillions of Dollars in Lost Earnings - World Bank (World Bank, 2020)
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Human Capital Project - October 2020 - World Bank (2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:X3RGDTJR 2486141:R2E2GJQ3
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Incidence of HIV, all (per 1,000 uninfected population) - Sierra Leone | Data - World Bank (2020)
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Individuals using the Internet (% of population) - Bangladesh - World Bank (2020)
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Project Appraisal Document: Sierra Leone Free Education Project - World Bank (2020)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Results of Mongolia COVID-19 Household Response Phone Survey (Round 1) - World Bank (World Bank Group, 2020)
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Special Needs Education in Uganda: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #4 Concerns Quality and Inclusive Education - World Bank (World Bank, 2020)
About 16% of Ugandan children have a disability, this suggests that most children with disabilities are not able to attend school and that learners with special needs fail to transition from one educational level to another.
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Worldreader | Sierra Leone - Worldreader (2020)
Worldreader brings digital reading to schools in Sierra Leone in partnership with the Klintworth Family Foundation.
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Acceptance on open and distance learning method amongst special education needs teachers during movement control order - Yahaya, Nasiha Hanis (Journal of Media and Information Warfare (JMIW), 2020)
Publisher: Centre For Media And Information Warfare Studies
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Tackling environmental challenges in pollution controls using artificial intelligence: A review - Ye, Zhiping; Yang, Jiaqian; Zhong, Na; Tu, Xin; Jia, Jining; Wang, Jiade (Science of the Total Environment, 2020)
Publisher: Elsevier

Estimating Level of Engagement from Ocular Landmarks - Yücel, Zeynep; Koyama, Serina; Monden, Akito; Sasakura, Mariko (International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2020)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/10447318.2020.1768666 2129771:AXSCFDCB
Keywords: __C:filed:1

The Emerging Role of Corporate Actors as Policymakers in Education in Emergencies: Evidence from the Syria Refugee Crisis - Zakharia, Zeena; Menashy, Francine (Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2020)
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Relationship Between Classroom Physical Environment and Students’ Academic Achievement at Secondary Level - Zaman, Fakhar; Begum, Shabnam; Ullah, Mati (2020)
For fruitful teaching and learning process, physical classroom environment is very essential. The key purpose of the study was examining relationship between classroom physical environment and students’ academic achievement at Secondary Level in Southern KP. The study was descriptive in nature. The population of the study comprised of the five districts in Southern KP in which (n = 400) respondents were taken as sample of the study by applying stratified random sampling technique in which 200 were urban (100 male students and 100 female students). Similarly, 200 were rural students (100 male and 100 female). From each selected district, 05 urban and 05 rural male schools and similarly 05 urban and 05 rural female schools were randomly selected among these 05 districts. Data were collected from 20 schools. A self-developed questionnaire was used to find views of the students about their physical class room environment. Cronbach Alpha was applied. The collected data was entered into SPSS. Results and conclusions were drawn according to the nature of study. Thus, some recommendations were suggested at the end for the further improvement and future researcher.
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Keywords: BE:LMIC; BE:RELEVANT

Systematic Reviews in Educational Research: Methodology, Perspectives and Application [Book] - Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Kerres, Michael; Bedenlier, Svenja; Bond, Melissa; Buntins, Katja (Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/978-3-658-27602-7 2129771:4A6ZX2I6

The development dictionary @25: post-development and its consequences - Ziai, Aram (2020)
Few books in the history of Development Studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary-A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992. The Development Dictionary was crucial in establishing what has become known as the Post-Development (PD) school. This volume is devoted to the legacy of The Development Dictionary and to discussing Post-Development. Thisbook originally publishedas a special issueof Third World Quarterly.
OCLC: 1222779613

Evaluation Learning from Experience USAID Evaluation Policy - Ziegler, Jessica (2020)
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A district level study on the deployment, allocation and utilisation of teachers between and within Malawi’s primary schools: an accountability and political settlements approach - Zubairi, Asma (University of Cambridge, 2020)
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Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Cambodia KHM; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Jamaica JAM; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Lesotho LSO; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mauritius MUS; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:Niger NER; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Papua New Guinea PNG; _C:Peru PER; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Senegal SEN; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; _C:Zambia ZMB; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

指尖上的学习: 触屏学习的作用 - 谢和平; 周宗奎; 黄勖喆; 朱晓伟; 范翠英 (心理科学, 2020)
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Keywords: _C:Greece GRC; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

한국의 대학생을 대상으로 한 성교육 프로그램에 관한 통합적 고찰 - 신혜원; 이정민; 민혜영 (한국간호교육학회지, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:E8QDFIDD
Keywords: _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea; Republic KOR; _C:Uganda UGA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

입원 아동 대상 통증 완화 중재에 대한 통합적 고찰 - 조해련; 이정민; 김신정 (Child Health Nursing Research, 2020)
Publisher: 한국아동간호학회 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:ZFYBZIMG
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Integrating GIS Accessibility and Location-Allocation Models with Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Evaluating Quality of Life in Buraidah City, KSA - Abd El Karim, Ashraf; Awawdeh, Mohsen M. (Sustainability, 2020)
The present study was aimed at evaluating the quality of life in the districts of Buraidah city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as part of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, based on provided services in terms of distance and time parameters. This was achieved by integrating Geographic Information System (GIS)-based network analysis and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) techniques. The service area analysis technique of the GIS Network Analysis tools was applied to the available services in the districts of Buraidah city. Twelve services were investigated with regard to their coverage within 5, 10, and 15 minutes of travel time: universities, high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, hospitals, health centers, ambulance facilities, government services, religious services, security services, sports services, and recreational services. GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis (GIS-MCDA) was implemented in the study to obtain a spatial suitability map of the standard of living quality in the various districts in Buraidah city. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique was used to determine the criteria weights. The location-allocation model was used in the study as well for suggestions of new service locations to improve the spatial distribution of services and enhance the quality of life in the districts. The results of the final suitability map to determine districts with the best standard of living according to the provided services show that the living standards in the city are very good, with very high and high levels in around 51 districts, representing 72.9% (449,235 people), and about 19 districts with moderate, low, and very low levels, representing 27.1% (56,765 people). Narrowing the quality of life gap and improving spatial planning requires correcting the current deficiency in services, which is estimated in this study to be 16 services: one high school, one elementary school, one middle school, two universities, one sports service, two security services, two courts, two hospitals, one health center, one park, and two ambulance facilities.
Number: 4 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Keywords: AHP; KSA vision 2030; MCDA; network analysis; quality of life; service accessibility; spatial suitability

Toward Successful Development Policies: Insights from Research in Development Economics - Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert; Dasgupta, Susmita; Fattal, Roberto; Filmer, Deon; Gine, Xavier; Jacoby, Hanan; Jolliffe, Dean; Kee, Hiau Looi; Klapper, Leora; Kraay, Aart; Loayza, Norman; et al. (World Bank, 2020)
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13 short, nontechnical briefing notes prepared in response to this request, summarizing a selection of major insights in development economics in the past decade. The notes synthesize evidence from recent research on how policies should be designed, implemented, and evaluated, and provide illustrations of what works and what does not in selected policy areas.
Accepted: 2020-02-06T16:11:58Z KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1596/1813-9450-9133 4804264:YN4TTP6L
Keywords: Agricultural Economics; Development Economics; Development Policy; Economic Growth; Education; Environmental Economics; Final_citation; Financial Economics; Health; International Economics; Macroeconomics; Monetary Economics; Natural Resource Economics; Public Economics; Welfare; cited; existing

Strengthening Teaching Accountability to Reach All Students - Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne; Lucas, Adrienne; Tsinigo, Edward (IPA Ghana, 2020)
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Keywords: C:Ghana; _C:Ghana GHA; ⛔ No DOI found

Digital Transformation in Higher Education Institutions: A Systematic Literature Review - Benavides, Lina María Castro; Tamayo Arias, Johnny Alexander; Arango Serna, Martín Darío; Branch Bedoya, John William; Burgos, Daniel (Sensors, 2020)
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been permeated by the technological advancement that the Industrial Revolution 4.0 brings with it, and forces institutions to deal with a digital transformation in all dimensions. Applying the approaches of digital transformation to the HEI domain is an emerging field that has aroused interest during the recent past, as they allow us to describe the complex relationships between actors in a technologically supported education domain. The objective of this paper is to summarize the distinctive characteristics of the digital transformation (DT) implementation process that have taken place in HEIs. The Kitchenham protocol was conducted by authors to answer the research questions and selection criteria to retrieve the eligible papers. Nineteen papers (1980–2019) were identified in the literature as relevant and consequently analyzed in detail. The main findings show that it is indeed an emerging field, none of the found DT in HEI proposals have been developed in a holistic dimension. This situation calls for further research efforts on how HEIs can understand DT and face the current requirements that the fourth industrial revolution forced.
Number: 11 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Keywords: digital transformation; digitalization; higher education institution; systematic literature review; university

Analyzing the Impact of COVID-19 on Education Professionals. Toward a Paradigm Shift: ICT and Neuroeducation as a Binomial of Action - Espino-Díaz, Luis; Fernandez-Caminero, Gemma; Hernandez-Lloret, Carmen-Maria; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Hugo; Alvarez-Castillo, Jose-Luis (Sustainability, 2020)
This study analyzed the current situation of education in the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The worldwide health emergency situation has caused the confinement of people and with it, the closure of centers and the transfer of face-to-face education to online education. Faced with these facts, teachers have had to adapt at a dizzying pace not only to new methodological approaches, but also to their own confinement, presenting high levels of stress. The purpose of this study is to offer a proposal that optimizes the work of education professionals in the current context of a pandemic through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) under the novel approach of the contributions of neuroeducation in the field of managing emotions and motivational processes, contributing to meaningful learning in students. The symbiosis of ICT and neuroeducation can make a great contribution to the paradigm shift that is taking place today.
Number: 14 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/su12145646 2129771:2BJMYKAR
Keywords: COVID-19; ICT; __C:filed:1; neuroeducation; stress; teachers

Policy Response, Social Media and Science Journalism for the Sustainability of the Public Health System Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Vietnam Lessons - La, Viet-Phuong; Pham, Thanh-Hang; Ho, Manh-Toan; Nguyen, Minh-Hoang; P. Nguyen, Khanh-Linh; Vuong, Thu-Trang; Nguyen, Hong-Kong T.; Tran, Trung; Khuc, Quy; Ho, Manh-Tung; Vuong, Quan-Hoang (Sustainability, 2020)
Having geographical proximity and a high volume of trade with China, the first country to record an outbreak of the new Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Vietnam was expected to have a high risk of transmission. However, as of 4 April 2020, in comparison to attempts to containing the disease around the world, responses from Vietnam are seen as prompt and effective in protecting the interests of its citizens, with 239 confirmed cases and no fatalities. This study analyzes the situation in terms of Vietnam’s policy response, social media and science journalism. A self-made web crawl engine was used to scan and collect official media news related to COVID-19 between the beginning of January and April 4, yielding a comprehensive dataset of 14,952 news items. The findings shed light on how Vietnam—despite being under-resourced—has demonstrated political readiness to combat the emerging pandemic since the earliest days. Timely communication on any developments of the outbreak from the government and the media, combined with up-to-date research on the new virus by the Vietnamese science community, have altogether provided reliable sources of information. By emphasizing the need for immediate and genuine cooperation between government, civil society and private individuals, the case study offers valuable lessons for other nations concerning not only the concurrent fight against the COVID-19 pandemic but also the overall responses to a public health crisis.
Number: 7 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/su12072931 2129771:QKI33LFP
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Vietnam; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:China CHN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea; Republic KOR; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:Thailand THA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Viet Nam VNM; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; coronavirus; pandemic; policy response; public health system; science journalism; social media

Using GIS and Machine Learning to Classify Residential Status of Urban Buildings in Low and Middle Income Settings - Lloyd, Christopher T.; Sturrock, Hugh J. W.; Leasure, Douglas R.; Jochem, Warren C.; Lázár, Attila N.; Tatem, Andrew J. (Remote Sensing, 2020)
Utilising satellite images for planning and development is becoming a common practice as computational power and machine learning capabilities expand. In this paper, we explore the use of satellite image derived building footprint data to classify the residential status of urban buildings in low and middle income countries. A recently developed ensemble machine learning building classification model is applied for the first time to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to Nigeria. The model is informed by building footprint and label data of greater completeness and attribute consistency than have previously been available for these countries. A GIS workflow is described that semiautomates the preparation of data for input to the model. The workflow is designed to be particularly useful to those who apply the model to additional countries and use input data from diverse sources. Results show that the ensemble model correctly classifies between 85% and 93% of structures as residential and nonresidential across both countries. The classification outputs are likely to be valuable in the modelling of human population distributions, as well as in a range of related applications such as urban planning, resource allocation, and service delivery.
Number: 23 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Keywords: building classification; building footprint; machine learning; residential; superlearner

E-Mentoring in Higher Education: A Structured Literature Review and Implications for Future Research - Tinoco-Giraldo, Harold; Torrecilla Sánchez, Eva María; García-Peñalvo, Francisco José (Sustainability, 2020)
Mentoring in higher education helps learners acclimate to a new academic topic, increases the likelihood of academic success, and reduces attrition. Learners rely on the expertise and experience of mentors to help them graduate in a timely manner and advance on to their career. As online and distance education becomes more pervasive, computer-mediated mentoring allows learners to connect with their mentors in new ways. Research about mentoring in higher education includes investigations into the efficacy of virtual or e-mentoring. We conducted a literature review of research from 2009 to 2019 to identify relevant elements for implementing e-mentoring programs in higher education. Our research revealed that there is a consistent interest in the subject matter within educational research; however, there is a gap on virtual mentoring in higher education for students conducting offsite internships. Our research reviews e-mentoring programs, identifies how these programs are evaluated, identifies factors of successful programs, and establishes a research agenda in areas of e-mentoring programs for students in offsite internships and how they can be structured to achieve the same level of success.
Number: 11 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Keywords: e-mentoring; higher education; literature review; mapping; open educational resources; sustainable education

Toward Sustainable Learning during School Suspension: Socioeconomic, Occupational Aspirations, and Learning Behavior of Vietnamese Students during COVID-19 - Tran, Trung; Hoang, Anh-Duc; Nguyen, Yen-Chi; Nguyen, Linh-Chi; Ta, Ngoc-Thuy; Pham, Quang-Hong; Pham, Chung-Xuan; Le, Quynh-Anh; Dinh, Viet-Hung; Nguyen, Tien-Trung (Sustainability, 2020)
The overspread of the novel coronavirus—SARS-CoV-2—over the globe has caused significant damage to manufacturing and service businesses, regardless of whether they are commercial, public, or not-for-profit sectors. While both the short-term and long-term impacts of most companies can be approximately measured or estimated, it is challenging to address the enduring effects of COVID-19 on teaching and learning activities. The target of this research is to investigate students’ manners of studying at home during the school suspension time as a result of COVID-19. Through analyzing original survey data from 420 K6–12 students in Hanoi, Vietnam, this work demonstrates the different learning habits of students with different socioeconomic statuses and occupational aspirations during the disease’s outbreak. In particular, we featured the differences in students’ learning behaviors between private schools and public schools, as well as between students who plan to follow STEM-related careers and those who intend to engage in social science-related careers. The empirical evidence of this study can be used for the consideration of the local government to increase the sustainability of coming policies and regulations to boost students’ self-efficacy, as it will affect 1.4 million students in Hanoi, as well as the larger population of nearly 10 million Vietnamese students. These results can also be the foundation for future investigations on how to elevate students’ learning habits toward Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4)—Quality Education—especially in fanciful situations in which the regular school operation has been disrupted, counting with limited observation and support from teachers and parents.
Number: 10 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/su12104195 2129771:ZPR8JBDE
Keywords: COVID-19; SDG4; Vietnam; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea; Democratic People's Republic PRK; _C:Korea; Republic KOR; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Poland POL; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:Thailand THA; _C:United States USA; _C:Viet Nam VNM; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; learning habit; occupational aspiration; school closure; secondary school; socioeconomic; sustainable education

Digital Undergraduate Education in Dentistry: A Systematic Review - Zitzmann, Nicola U.; Matthisson, Lea; Ohla, Harald; Joda, Tim (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020)
The aim of this systematic review was to investigate current penetration and educational quality enhancements from digitalization in the dental curriculum. Using a modified PICO strategy, the literature was searched using PubMed supplemented with a manual search to identify English-language articles published between 1994 and 2020 that reported the use of digital techniques in dental education. A total of 211 articles were identified by electronic search, of which 55 articles were selected for inclusion and supplemented with 27 additional publications retrieved by manual search, resulting in 82 studies that were included in the review. Publications were categorized into five areas of digital dental education: Web-based knowledge transfer and e-learning, digital surface mapping, dental simulator motor skills (including intraoral optical scanning), digital radiography, and surveys related to the penetration and acceptance of digital education. This review demonstrates that digitalization offers great potential to revolutionize dental education to help prepare future dentists for their daily practice. More interactive and intuitive e-learning possibilities will arise to stimulate an enjoyable and meaningful educational experience with 24/7 facilities. Augmented and virtual reality technology will likely play a dominant role in the future of dental education.
Number: 9 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/ijerph17093269 2129771:CV9QZRC7
Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review; augmented reality (AR); dental education; digital dentistry; virtual reality (VR)

Essays in development economics, human capital and external validity - Angrist, N. (University of Oxford, 2020)
This thesis comprises three papers under the overarching theme of external validity – a question of how the effectiveness of interventions or policies translate across contexts. I focus on interventions that aim to improve human capital, specifically health and education, in developing countries. To address the topic of external validity, we need comparable interventions and outcomes as well as identification of causal mechanisms that drive intervention effectiveness across contexts. My three papers contribute to each aspect. Two of my papers focus on constructing and comparing outcomes to measure education and human capital globally. In a third paper, I conduct a large-scale randomized controlled trial of a sex education intervention in Botswana in a third of the country. This trial builds on a prior trial showing a similar intervention reduced teenage pregnancy by 28% in Kenya ten years prior. The study in Botswana provides replicable evidence across contexts, showing reductions in pregnancy of up to 40%. The trial also deepens understanding of the underlying mechanism driving behavior by testing novel dimensions, such as the degree to which the messenger delivering the sex education message matters. I find the messenger makes-or-breaks the intervention: while near-peer educators reduce pregnancy, government teachers have a null effect and appear to induce a teenage rebellion response. This contrast is striking, suggesting that an underexplored dimension on which external validity turns – the messenger – might matter more than dimensions which traditionally get more attention, such as time and geography.

Environmental education outcomes for conservation: A systematic review - Ardoin, Nicole M.; Bowers, Alison W.; Gaillard, Estelle (Biological Conservation, 2020)
Effective environmental education represents more than a unidirectional transfer of information: rather, this suite of tools develops and enhances environmental attitudes, values, and knowledge, as well as builds skills that prepare individuals and communities to collaboratively undertake positive environmental action. Environmental education also facilitates connections between actionable research findings and on-the-ground practices, creating synergistic spaces where stakeholders collaborate to address dynamic environmental issues over time. Because of this commitment to application and iteration, environmental education can result in direct benefits to the environment and address conservation issues concretely. Yet, the path to achieving those tangible impacts can be winding, with robust data documenting changes challenging to produce. To better understand the research-implementation spaces where those environmental education outcomes occur, are measured, and are reported, we undertook a systematic review of research on environmental education's contributions to conservation and environmental quality outcomes. Given the variation in research designs and data, we used a mixed-methods approach to the review; analysis of the 105 resulting studies documented strongly positive environmental education outcomes overall and highlighted productive research-implementation spaces. Chi-square analyses revealed that programs reporting direct outcomes, compared with those reporting indirect outcomes, differed on primary topic addressed. A narrative analysis indicated that environmental education programs documenting direct impacts included: a focus on localized issues or locally relevant dimensions of broader issues; collaboration with scientists, resource managers, and/or community organizations; integrated action elements; and intentional measurement/reporting structures. Those themes suggest program development and documentation ideas as well as further opportunities for productive research-implementation spaces.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108224 2129771:QXB53UAF
Keywords: Conservation social sciences; Environmental education; Environmental management; Public engagement; Research-implementation spaces; Systematic review

Beyond COVID-19 supernova. Is another education coming? - Azorín, Cecilia (Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2020)
Purpose This article explores social and educational responses to COVID-19 as seen through the lens of the Spanish education, in which professional capital and community is at the epicenter of the fight against the pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This is a reflective and forward-thinking piece in which educators are presented as first responders to the crisis. The article is structured in four parts. First, the opportunities and barriers that COVID-19 is encountering in 21st-century education are commented on. Second, there is recognition of the need to be connected more than ever; and the vital role of networks. Third, the article discusses the effort to realize the maxim “not to leave anyone behind.” Fourth, the last section summarizes the key points related to the aspects to which education should devote its efforts in the coming months and years in Spain. Findings There is a set of reasons why the Spanish education system is extremely vulnerable to the consequences caused by COVID-19, and these include, among others: the high rates of socioeconomic segregation, of school dropouts and of academic failure; poor culture of networking and collaboration; overcrowded classrooms that hinders quality education; an obsolete curriculum; the consideration of education as a political currency; the need to strengthen bimodal education; and teachers' obligation to update their digital competences. Originality/value The article questions whether another education is possible beyond the pandemic and promotes a deep reflection in this particular context for practitioners and policymakers on which topics more attention could be focused during this time of turmoil.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1108/JPCC-05-2020-0019 2129771:RY9FT26V
Keywords: Collective capacity; Community engagement; Educational change; Networks; __C:filed:1

Accelerated Learning and EdTech: A Rapid Evidence Review - Damani, Kalifa (EdTech Hub, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:GBVDSAA5
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

A review of project-based learning in higher education: Student outcomes and measures - Guo, Pengyue; Saab, Nadira; Post, Lysanne S.; Admiraal, Wilfried (International Journal of Educational Research, 2020)
Project-based learning (PjBL) is understood to be a promising approach that improves student learning in higher education. Empirical studies on project-based learning have been reviewed with a focus on student outcomes. Affective outcomes (i.e. perceptions of the benefits of PjBL and perceptions of the experience of PjBL) were most applied, which were measured by questionnaires, interviews, observation, and self-reflection journals. Cognitive outcomes (i.e. knowledge and cognitive strategies) and behavioral outcomes (i.e. skills and engagement) were measured by questionnaires, rubrics, tests, interviews, observation, self-reflection journals, artifacts, and log data. The outcome of artifact performance was assessed by rubrics. Future research should investigate more about students’ learning processes and final products. Measurement instruments and data analyses should also be improved.
Keywords: Higher education; Learning outcomes; Measurement instruments; Project-based learning; Review

Transactional sex in the wake of COVID-19: sexual and reproductive health and rights of the forcibly displaced - Jacobson, Lauren; Regan, Alexandra; Heidari, Shirin; Onyango, Monica Adhiambo (Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2020.1822493 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/26410397.2020.1822493 2129771:W9JTW9E7
Keywords: COVID-19; forcibly displaced people; sexual and reproductive health; transactional sex

Social economic impact of COVID-19 outbreak in India - M., Sandeep Kumar; V., Maheshwari; J., Prabhu; M., Prasanna; P., Jayalakshmi; P., Suganya; M.B., Benjula Anbu Malar; Jothikumar, R. (International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2020)
Purpose of this study The situations of COVID-19 will certainly have an adverse effect over and above health care on factors of the internet of things (IoT) market. To overcome all the above issues, IoT devices and sensors can be used to track and monitor the movement of the people, so that necessary actions can be taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Mobile devices can be used for contact tracing of the affected person by analyzing the geomap of the travel history. This will prevent the spread and reset the economy to the normal condition. Design/methodology/approach To respond to the global COVID-19 outbreak, the social-economic implications of COVID-19 on specific dimensions of the global economy are analyzed in this study. The situations of COVID-19 will certainly have an adverse effect over and above health care on factors of the IoT market. To overcome these issues IoT devices and sensors can be used to track and monitor the movement of the people so that necessary actions can be taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Mobile devices can be used for contact tracing of the affected person by analyzing the geomap of the travel history. This will prevent the spread and reset the economy to the normal condition. A few reviews, approaches, and guidelines are provided in this article along these lines. Moreover, insights about the effects of the pandemic on various sectors such as agriculture, medical industry, finance, information technology, manufacturing and many others are provided. These insights may support strategic decision making and policy framing activities for the top level management in private and government sectors. Findings With insecurities of a new recession and economic crisis, key moments such as these call for strong and powerful governance in health, business, government, and large society. Instant support measures have to be initiated and adapted for those who can drop through the cracks. Mid- and long-term strategies are required to stabilize and motivate the economy during this recession. Originality/value A comprehensive social-economic development strategy that consists of sector by sector schemes and infrastructure that supports business to ensure the success of those with reliable and sustainable business models is necessary. From the literature analysis and real world observations it is concluded that the IoT, sensors, wearable devices and computational technologies plays major role in preserving the economy of the country by preventing the spread of COVID-19.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1108/IJPCC-06-2020-0053 2129771:WKL3YUKK
Keywords: COVID-19; Implication; Industry; IoT and wearable devices; Socio-economic growth

Synergizing education, research, campus operations, and community engagements towards sustainability in higher education: a literature review - Menon, Shalini; Suresh, M. (International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020)
Purpose The UN proclamation of 2005–2014 as the decade of education for sustainable development has been instrumental in creating awareness and driving higher education institutions (HEIs) in integrating sustainability into their system. The purpose of this paper is to explore and encapsulate practices adopted by universities and colleges across the globe in integrating sustainability in education (here refers to curriculum and pedagogy), research, campus operations and outreach programs. Design/methodology/approach The review analyzed 229 peer-reviewed research studies in the time period 2005–2018 selected from 44 journals. The literature review was done in phases. The first phase was the selection of the database, the second phase was refining the database by eliminating irrelevant studies and the last phase was distributing selected studies on the basis of the journal, year and country of publication, research paradigm, sustainability integration in higher education, teaching techniques adopted by HEIs and research focus in publications. Findings This study contributes to the literature review of sustainability in higher education. From the literature review, it is evident that sustainability has made inroads into HEIs, but only a few universities have been successful in implementing it holistically, integrating all the triple bottom line dimensions in balance. Practical implications The study has practical implications for HEIs planning to integrate sustainability into teaching and learning and other aspects of educational practices. The findings and the examples of successful implementation of sustainable education by institutions around the world would help universities and colleges in formulating policies, strategies and practices that would promote sustainability on campuses. Originality/value The literature reviews on sustainability in higher education so far have focused either on curricula, pedagogical approaches, assessment and reporting or barriers and solutions. This study attempts to offer a comprehensive view of the initiatives adopted by the institutions in incorporating sustainability in education, research, campus operations and outreach programs.
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Keywords: Campus operations; Higher education; Outreach programs; Sustainability; Sustainable education and research

Best Practices in Middle Level Quaranteaching: Strategies, Tips and Resources Amidst COVID-19 - Pace, Christi; Pettit, Stacie; Barker, Kim (Becoming: Journal of the Georgia Association for Middle Level Education, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.20429/becoming.2020.310102 2129771:DEUSH5HH
Keywords: __C:filed:1

A rapid response to COVID-19: one district’s pivot from technology integration to distance learning - Peterson, Lana; Scharber, Cassie; Thuesen, Amy; Baskin, Katie (Information and Learning Sciences, 2020)
Purpose In March of 2020, Minnesota schools were mandated to transition to distance learning to slow the spread of COVID-19. The charge of providing equitable and appropriate remote learning to all students gave administrators, educators and non-academic staff a few weeks to completely redesign education. This paper aims to describe one district’s experience in planning and offering distance education and build precedent other educational leaders may use in future designs. Design/methodology/approach This case study documents how one rural K12 district leveraged their strong foundation of technology integration and created crisis remote learning solutions for its most marginalized student populations including special education students, English learners and financially disadvantaged students. Findings This study shares examples of how this district prioritized relationships and the well-being of students and staff and outlines practical strategies for equitable distance learning that should be considered during and beyond emergency remote teaching. Originality/value This paper provides just-in-time practical advice for K12 administrators and educators on navigating crisis distance learning.
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1108/ILS-04-2020-0131 2129771:2G45CZ2H
Keywords: COVID-19; Case study; Crisis remote learning; Distance learning; Pragmatic guidelines; Technology integration; _C:India IND; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

EdTech Innovation for COVID-19: Insights from our global call for ideas - Plaut, Daniel; Carter, Alice; Dixon, Miranda; Salami, Taiye (2020)
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KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.4768571 4804264:7UIKPD5M
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Will the pandemic change schools? - Sahlberg, Pasi (Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2020)
Purpose This essay offers a perspective for practitioners and decision-makers to look beyond short-term recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and consider longer-term consequences that it may have on schools. Design/methodology/approach In this essay, I discuss some general observations about education during the pandemic and then provide a perspective to some issues related to educational inequalities and learning from home during the pandemic. The essay is informed by recent media articles and reports of national and international institutions. Findings This essay makes three claims: Despite high hopes, there is only a little chance schools will change as a consequence of this pandemic without bold and brave shifts in mindset in how that change happens. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the effects of preexisting social and educational inequalities; fixing these would be an important consequence of the pandemic. During school closures, learning from home has been mostly based on the old logic of consuming information and knowledge rather than creating or cocreating new ideas and solutions to real-life problems. Research limitations/implications This is an essay that offers evidence-informed perspectives to current development in education, and it should not be treated as a research-based article. Originality/value This essay will contribute to the evolving public conversation and professional debate on the future of school education. It will be part of the series of essays that will support those who are seeking to not just adapt to meet the pandemic but also to step back and consider the medium to longer-term implications.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1108/JPCC-05-2020-0026 2129771:EEBKLVBQ
Keywords: COVID-19; Professionalism; School change; __C:filed:1

Silently withdrawn or retracted preprints related to Covid-19 are a scholarly threat and a potential public health risk: theoretical arguments and suggested recommendations - Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. (Online Information Review, 2020)
Purpose Thousands of preprints related to Covid-19 have effused into the academic literature. Even though these are not peer-reviewed documents and have not been vetted by medical or other experts, several have been cited, while others have been widely promoted by the media. While many preprints eventually find their way into the published literature, usually through integrated publishing streams, there is a small body of preprints that have been opaquely withdrawn/retracted, without suitable reasons, leaving only a vestigial or skeletal record online. Others have, quite literally, vanished. This paper aims to examine some of those cases. Design/methodology/approach For peer-reviewed literature, a retracted academic paper is usually water-marked with “RETRACTED” across each page of the document, as recommended by ethical bodies such as the Committee on Publication Ethics, which represents thousands of journals and publishers. Curiously, even though pro-preprint groups claim that preprints are an integral part of the publication process and a scholarly instrument, there are no strict, detailed or established ethical guidelines for preprints on most preprint servers. This paper identifies select withdrawn/retracted preprints and emphasizes that the opaque removal of preprints from the scholarly record may constitute unscholarly, possibly even predatory or unethical, behavior. Findings Strict ethical guidelines are urgently needed for preprints, and preprint authors, in the case of misconduct, should face the same procedure and consequences as standard peer-reviewed academic literature. Originality/value Journals and publishers that have silently retracted or withdrawn preprints should reinstate them, as for regular retracted literature, except for highly exceptional cases.
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Keywords: Acceptance and rejection; Biomedicine; Correction of the literature; Open access; Peer review; Preprints; Retractions; SARS-CoV-2 virus; Withdrawals

Exploring relationships between teachers and students with diagnosed disabilities: A multi-informant approach - Zee, Marjolein; de Bree, Elise; Hakvoort, Britt; Koomen, Helma M. Y. (Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2020)
This study explored unique associations of student disabilities (ADHD, ASD, dyslexia) with teacher-, student- and peer-perceptions of student–teacher relationship quality. Sixty-three teachers, 510 students, and classmates from 24 Dutch mainstream elementary schools completed questionnaires about the student–teacher relationship quality. Teachers indicated whether students were diagnosed with disabilities. Multilevel models indicated that both teachers and classmates, but not students with ADHD themselves, reported higher levels of conflict in relationships. Additionally, teachers experienced less closeness and more conflict in relationships with children with ASD. The lower levels of closeness were also reported by classmates, but not by students with ASD themselves. Last, students with dyslexia experienced less closeness and conflict with their teacher, whereas their classmates and teachers reported more closeness and less conflict in relationships.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101101 2129771:975FSIMS
Keywords: ADHD; ASD; Dyslexia; Multi-informant approach; Student–teacher relationship

Supporting Refugee Distance Education: A Review of the Literature - Taftaf, Randa; Williams, Christy (American Journal of Distance Education, 2020)
The sudden influx of refugees into countries around the world has caused a complicated, multi-faceted, international refugee crisis. Refugees, whether in camps or urban areas, face a myriad of problems and obstacles, yet one of the most critical issues young refugees face is the lack of educational opportunities and/or resources. United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund warns that this lack of education could potentially create a “lost generation” which may lead to serious implications, not only for these young refugees but also to surrounding, nearby societies. This paper seeks to understand if and how Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) have been reported in the literature as being used in different contexts to connect young refugees with high quality educational opportunities, and whether the urban or camp contexts impact these opportunities. The results of this review of the literature indicate that a number of different ICTs have successfully been used in a variety of different educational settings and for a variety of purposes. Additionally, where a refugee lives could impact the accessibility and nature of the ICT tools available to provide an education.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/08923647.2020.1691411 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/08923647.2020.1691411 2129771:7PNWHCSL
Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review

A Survey on Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Young People and Their Needs: Online Survey Conducted between 28 March and 10 April 2020 - Children and Youth Council of Thailand; UNICEF; The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) (2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:PLTTGVTJ 2405685:7VALEFX5
Keywords: _COVID_DEAA-List

Contemporary patterns and issues of school segregation and white flight in U.S. metropolitan areas: towards spatial inquiries - Zhang, Charlie H.; Ruther, Matt (GeoJournal, 2020)
Keywords: Lebanon_event_2021; _C:Chile CHL; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Software tools to support title and abstract screening for systematic reviews in healthcare: an evaluation - Harrison, Hannah; Griffin, Simon J.; Kuhn, Isla; Usher-Smith, Juliet A. (BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020)
Systematic reviews are vital to the pursuit of evidence-based medicine within healthcare. Screening titles and abstracts (T&Ab) for inclusion in a systematic review is an intensive, and often collaborative, step. The use of appropriate tools is therefore important. In this study, we identified and evaluated the usability of software tools that support T&Ab screening for systematic reviews within healthcare research.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1186/s12874-020-0897-3 2129771:7JIHF79S 2129771:7UBSU78W 2405685:DXHLMQY6 2486141:WH85XWT8 2486141:Z5HN3IS3
Keywords: Feature analysis; Screening; Software tools; Systematic reviews; Title and abstract; _Added-ailr-2024

Error rates of human reviewers during abstract screening in systematic reviews - Wang, Zhen; Nayfeh, Tarek; Tetzlaff, Jennifer; O’Blenis, Peter; Murad, Mohammad Hassan (PLOS ONE, 2020)
Background Automated approaches to improve the efficiency of systematic reviews are greatly needed. When testing any of these approaches, the criterion standard of comparison (gold standard) is usually human reviewers. Yet, human reviewers make errors in inclusion and exclusion of references. Objectives To determine citation false inclusion and false exclusion rates during abstract screening by pairs of independent reviewers. These rates can help in designing, testing and implementing automated approaches. Methods We identified all systematic reviews conducted between 2010 and 2017 by an evidence-based practice center in the United States. Eligible reviews had to follow standard systematic review procedures with dual independent screening of abstracts and full texts, in which citation inclusion by one reviewer prompted automatic inclusion through the next level of screening. Disagreements between reviewers during full text screening were reconciled via consensus or arbitration by a third reviewer. A false inclusion or exclusion was defined as a decision made by a single reviewer that was inconsistent with the final included list of studies. Results We analyzed a total of 139,467 citations that underwent 329,332 inclusion and exclusion decisions from 86 unique reviewers. The final systematic reviews included 5.48% of the potential references identified through bibliographic database search (95% confidence interval (CI): 2.38% to 8.58%). After abstract screening, the total error rate (false inclusion and false exclusion) was 10.76% (95% CI: 7.43% to 14.09%). Conclusions This study suggests important false inclusion and exclusion rates by human reviewers. When deciding the validity of a future automated study selection algorithm, it is important to keep in mind that the gold standard is not perfect and that achieving error rates similar to humans may be adequate and can save resources and time.
Publisher: Public Library of Science KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227742 2129771:2URBJNMF 2129771:I8BUSJXC 2405685:VUCXTFY8 2486141:3E2S7D8J 2486141:VT9P82V4
Keywords: Automation; Cardiovascular medicine; Citation analysis; Database searching; Health screening; Mental health and psychiatry; Primary care; Systematic reviews

Professional Development in the OECS Gets an Upgrade! - Warner-Arnold, Tracey (2020)
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The Impact of Public Finance Management (PFM) Reforms on Education in Tanzania - Quak, Evert-jan (2020)
This rapid review synthesises the literature from academic, policy, and knowledge institution sources on how Public Finance Management (PFM) needs and reforms have affected the education sector in Tanzania, in particular for primary education. The review uses the framework of Piatti-Fünfkirchen and Schneider (2018) to explain the evidence, as it analyses service delivery along efficiency, equity, quality and accountability. By doing this, the review concludes that the way the government manages resources within the education system generally has had a limited, but positive impact on education service delivery outcomes, mainly due to the priority status of the education sector by the government. However, the mechanisms through which PFM affects service delivery remain underexplored in general and in particular for Tanzania.
Accepted: 2020-02-04T15:36:52Z Publisher: IDS KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:JB22JXXU 4869029:8SQDFB3G
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Political Eeconomy of the Primary Education System in Tanzania - Quak, Evert-jan (2020)
This rapid review synthesises the literature from academic, policy, and knowledge institution sources on the available evidence on the political economy of the primary education system in Tanzania. The review has a specific focus on what political economy analysis tells us about achieving quality education in Tanzania. Different distributions of power shapes decisions and incentives both at the school level as in the overall educations system. From the literature it can be concluded that building accountability mechanisms within a learning environment is one of the most effective ways to align goals, policy and practice and find a power balance in which reforms could result in quality learning outcomes for all. This could be even more important than financial resources. However, it is important to get the balance right between micro and macro level decision-making processes in quality education reforms, as research shows that they reinforce each other.
Accepted: 2020-02-04T15:00:43Z Publisher: IDS KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:RTXB58C4 4869029:5CEWU6JD
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Mapping research in student engagement and educational technology in higher education: a systematic evidence map - Bond, Melissa; Buntins, Katja; Bedenlier, Svenja; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Kerres, Michael (International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2020)
Digital technology has become a central aspect of higher education, inherently affecting all aspects of the student experience. It has also been linked to an increase in behavioural, affective and cognitive student engagement, the facilitation of which is a central concern of educators. In order to delineate the complex nexus of technology and student engagement, this article systematically maps research from 243 studies published between 2007 and 2016. Research within the corpus was predominantly undertaken within the United States and the United Kingdom, with only limited research undertaken in the Global South, and largely focused on the fields of Arts & Humanities, Education, and Natural Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics. Studies most often used quantitative methods, followed by mixed methods, with little qualitative research methods employed. Few studies provided a definition of student engagement, and less than half were guided by a theoretical framework. The courses investigated used blended learning and text-based tools (e.g. discussion forums) most often, with undergraduate students as the primary target group. Stemming from the use of educational technology, behavioural engagement was by far the most often identified dimension, followed by affective and cognitive engagement. This mapping article provides the grounds for further exploration into discipline-specific use of technology to foster student engagement.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1186/s41239-019-0176-8 2129771:AQCZVJ86
Keywords: Educational technology; Evidence map; Higher education; Student engagement; Systematic review; _genre:LR-literature_review

Scientists at DSTI go the extra mile to make it easier for children to get to school - Directorate of Science, Technology & Innovation (Sierra Leone) (2020)
Mike Fabrikant, a software developer from Washington D.C., is embedded within the data science team at the Directorate of Science, Technology, and Innovation (DSTI) to support systems delivery. His workRead More
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A grid-based sample design framework for household surveys - Boo, Gianluca; Darin, Edith; Thomson, Dana R.; Tatem, Andrew J. (Gates Open Research, 2020)
Traditional sample designs for household surveys are contingent upon the availability of a representative primary sampling frame. This is defined using enumeration units and population counts retrieved from decennial national censuses that can become rapidly inaccurate in highly dynamic demographic settings. To tackle the need for representative sampling frames, we propose an original grid-based sample design framework introducing essential concepts of spatial sampling in household surveys. In this framework, the sampling frame is defined based on gridded population estimates and formalized as a bi-dimensional random field, characterized by spatial trends, spatial autocorrelation, and stratification. The sampling design reflects the characteristics of the random field by combining contextual stratification and proportional to population size sampling. A nonparametric estimator is applied to evaluate the sampling design and inform sample size estimation. We demonstrate an application of the proposed framework through a case study developed in two provinces located in the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We define a sampling frame consisting of settled cells with associated population estimates. We then perform a contextual stratification by applying a principal component analysis (PCA) and k -means clustering to a set of gridded geospatial covariates, and sample settled cells proportionally to population size. Lastly, we evaluate the sampling design by contrasting the empirical cumulative distribution function for the entire population of interest and its weighted counterpart across different sample sizes and identify an adequate sample size using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance between the two functions. The results of the case study underscore the strengths and limitations of the proposed grid-based sample design framework and foster further research into the application of spatial sampling concepts in household surveys.

A topography of climate change research - Callaghan, Max; Minx, Jan C.; Forster, Piers M. (Nature Climate Change, 2020)
The massive expansion of scientific literature on climate change1 poses challenges for global environmental assessments and our understanding of how these assessments work. Big data and machine learning can help us deal with large collections of scientific text, making the production of assessments more tractable, and giving us better insights about how past assessments have engaged with the literature. We use topic modelling to draw a topic map, or topography, of over 400,000 publications from the Web of Science on climate change. We update current knowledge on the IPCC, showing that compared with the baseline of the literature identified, the social sciences are in fact over-represented in recent assessment reports. Technical, solutions-relevant knowledge—especially in agriculture and engineering—is under-represented. We suggest a variety of other applications of such maps, and our findings have direct implications for addressing growing demands for more solution-oriented climate change assessments that are also more firmly rooted in the social sciences2,3. The perceived lack of social science knowledge in assessment reports does not necessarily imply an IPCC bias, but rather suggests a need for more social science research with a focus on technical topics on climate solutions. The rapid growth of climate change research presents challenges for IPCC assessments and their stated aim of being comprehensive, objective and transparent. Here the authors use topic modelling to map the climate change literature, and assess how well it is represented in IPCC reports.
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Keywords: openalex:cites; openalex:import; selected_for:effects of climate ch...on learning...LMICs 2024; tagged

Teacher professional development and coaching in low-income countries: Overarching considerations for the use of technology - Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:n

Teacher professional development and coaching in low-income countries: Practical considerations for the use of technology. - Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; Björn-CV-OECS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:o

Teacher professional development and coaching in low-income countries: An evidence-informed conversation - Haßler, Björn; Moss, Caitlin (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:m

Sprint 6 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 6 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Methodological guidance paper: the art and science of quality systematic reviews - Alexander, Patricia A. (Review of Educational Research, 2020)
The purpose of this article is to overview various challenges that prospective authors of quality systematic reviews should be prepared to address. These challenges pertain to all phases of the review process: from posing a critical question worthy of pursuit and executing a search procedure that is appropriately framed and transparently recorded, to discerning patterns and trends within the resulting data that speak directly to the critical question framing the review. For each of these challenges, suggestions are offered as to how authors might respond so as to enhance the quality of the review process and increase the value of findings for educational research, practice, and policymaking.
Publisher: American Educational Research Association KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3102/0034654319854352 2405685:GC76C27N 2534378:I28YADAU
Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate

The potential of Accelerated Learning Programmes (ALPs) for conflict-ridden countries and regions: Lessons learned from an experience in Iraq - Bilagher, M.; Kaushik, A. (International Review of Education, 2020)
Accelerated learning programmes (ALPs) provide a fast-track second-chance opportunity to complete formal education, enabling disadvantaged children and youth to catch up with their peers. In 2005, after a preliminary pilot phase, the Government of Iraq, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) implemented an ALP initially in 10 of Iraq’s 18 governorates with the intention of providing an estimated 50,000 out-of-school, often traumatised and disenfranchised children aged 12–18 years with an opportunity to complete the six-year primary cycle in three years. This experience generated some insights which may still be of practical use today in other conflict-ridden countries and regions. In order to highlight how the lessons learned just over 10 years ago are relevant to similar situations elsewhere today, this article discusses the findings of an independent evaluation of the programme in 2008. The available evaluation data imply that this ALP addressed a significant need and was appreciated by the target group, with 75 % of learners stating that they liked the ALP very much. Around 90 % of ALP graduates continued either in secondary education, or studying in other programmes, joined an apprenticeship scheme or found employment. Both survey and interview data suggest that this ALP did more than create educational opportunities for young persons; it also helped young people obtain a confident perspective for their own future. Consequently, this made them less vulnerable to participation in subversive activities (such as, for example, being recruited into militias). This is a lesson not just relevant to Iraq at the time, but to a wide range of unstable contexts across the world. © 2020, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and Springer Nature B.V.
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Keywords: Accelerated Learning Programmes (ALPs); Evaluation; Iraq; LMIC; Marginalised; Sustainable Development Goal; Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4; United Nations; _AcademicRecoveryOECS; _Added to LR; _G:reviewed; access to education; education in (post-)conflict environments; education in emergencies; interview; learning; mixed; policy implementation; secondary education; survey; young population

Predicting and resolving non-completion in higher (online) education – A literature review - Delnoij, Laurie E. C.; Dirkx, Kim J. H.; Janssen, José P. W.; Martens, Rob L. (Educational Research Review, 2020)
Non-completion in higher education is a persistent problem and even worse of a problem in higher online education. Although there is a lot of research on predictors of non-completion, less is known about what interventions resolve the non-completion problem and to what extent these interventions focus on relevant predictors of non-completion. To close that gap, the literature was systematically reviewed with a twofold aim: 1. Identify modifiable predictors of non-completion in higher (online) education 2. Investigate characteristics of effective interventions to reduce non-completion in higher (online) education. Results showed that study- or learning strategies, academic self-efficacy, (academic) goals and intentions, institutional or college adjustment, employment, supportive network, and faculty-student interaction are modifiable consistent predictors of non-completion. Coaching, remedial teaching, and peer mentoring are promising interventions to resolve the problem of non-completion in higher education. Interventions aimed at increasing completion rates are limited in targeting relevant modifiable predictors of non-completion.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.edurev.2020.100313 2129771:BT5DD437
Keywords: Higher education; Intervention; Non-completion; Predictors; Review

Computational Grounded Theory: A Methodological Framework - Nelson, Laura K. (Sociological Methods & Research, 2020)
This article proposes a three-step methodological framework called computational grounded theory, which combines expert human knowledge and hermeneutic skills with the processing power and pattern recognition of computers, producing a more methodologically rigorous but interpretive approach to content analysis. The first, pattern detection step, involves inductive computational exploration of text, using techniques such as unsupervised machine learning and word scores to help researchers to see novel patterns in their data. The second, pattern refinement step, returns to an interpretive engagement with the data through qualitative deep reading or further exploration of the data. The third, pattern confirmation step, assesses the inductively identified patterns using further computational and natural language processing techniques. The result is an efficient, rigorous, and fully reproducible computational grounded theory. This framework can be applied to any qualitative text as data, including transcribed speeches, interviews, open-ended survey data, or ethnographic field notes, and can address many potential research questions.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1177/0049124117729703 2129771:4LFQQQV2 2129771:V765WS5J 2405685:IQFAV8I9 2486141:G3BE6P2T 2486141:WP4ANB2D
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Urban poverty and education. A systematic literature review - Silva-Laya, Marisol; D'Angelo, Natalia; García, Elda; Zúñiga, Laura; Fernández, Teresa (Educational Research Review, 2020)
This systematic literature review seeks to provide information on the limitations and opportunities faced by the urban poor in leveraging the potential benefits of education. The review covers the period 1995–2017 and includes 66 articles. The analysis addresses: a) the educational achievement of the urban poor and b) the conditions under which they receive education. Results show that, despite attending school, the urban poor are not able to fully satisfy their right to education. Their educational achievement is deficient in terms of learning, educational trajectory and the capacity to aspire to a better future and although they are included in schooling, material deprivation combined with socio-territorial characteristics and cultural and administrative obstacles means that this inclusion occurs in a stratified manner. The findings urge a reexamination of the discussion around the challenge of education in facilitating social mobility. Breaking the cycle between urban poverty and education requires multisectoral public policies with an equity perspective and the coordinated participation of various social actors.
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Keywords: Academic achievement; Aspirations; Equity and access; School segregation; Urban poverty; _genre:LR-literature_review

Challenges of Teachers on Teaching Practice: A Case Study of Students of Freetown Teachers’ College in Sierra Leone - Kamara, Alhaji Bakar (Asian Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 2020)
As the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology focuses on the agenda for free and quality education in all stages of teaching and learning in Sierra Leone, It is obvious that Teachers are at the center of all school activities. To ease the challenges of teachers in teaching, it is important to search for the problems of teachers on teaching practices. This study was conducted to find out some of the challenges that teachers on teaching practice experience in schools in Sierra Leone. The result will help to shed light on the aspect of the training exercise that needs to be improved to increase quality in schools. The study investigated the main challenges that teachers on teaching practice from Freetown Teachers College encounter in Social Studies and Business. Even though teaching practice teachers do their best to enrich students with their wealth of experiences, yet still, they got their obstacles that hinder their ability for effective teaching. The study employs qualitative procedures with a case study design where the main actor’s informant interview, observation focus group discussion and documentary review as the main methods of data collection. The respondents covered, 10 teaching practice teachers, 10 heads of schools, 9 college lecturers and 1 teaching practice coordinator of Freetown Teachers Polytechnic. The result revealed some problems in posting of student for teaching practice to various schools, payment of salaries to teaching practice teachers, school support, teaching methods, classroom environment, and language proficiency.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.34256/ajir2012 2129771:458LFMMX 2486141:SXTZ66DT
Keywords: Training College

More Than "If Time Allows": The Role of Ethics in AI Education - Garrett, Natalie; Beard, Nathan; Fiesler, Casey (Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2020)

Activating EdTech Jordan: Sprint 6 – Open Development & Education (2020)
Library Catalog: opendeved.net EdTechHub.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:XBVL7W2N
Keywords: _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Predicting academic success in higher education: literature review and best practices - Alyahyan, Eyman; Düştegör, Dilek (International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2020)
Student success plays a vital role in educational institutions, as it is often used as a metric for the institution’s performance. Early detection of students at risk, along with preventive measures, can drastically improve their success. Lately, machine learning techniques have been extensively used for prediction purpose. While there is a plethora of success stories in the literature, these techniques are mainly accessible to “computer science”, or more precisely, “artificial intelligence” literate educators. Indeed, the effective and efficient application of data mining methods entail many decisions, ranging from how to define student’s success, through which student attributes to focus on, up to which machine learning method is more appropriate to the given problem. This study aims to provide a step-by-step set of guidelines for educators willing to apply data mining techniques to predict student success. For this, the literature has been reviewed, and the state-of-the-art has been compiled into a systematic process, where possible decisions and parameters are comprehensively covered and explained along with arguments. This study will provide to educators an easier access to data mining techniques, enabling all the potential of their application to the field of education.

Developing Theory Through Integrating Human and Machine Pattern Recognition - Lindberg, Aron (Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2020)
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Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Broadening artificial intelligence education in K-12: where to start? - Wong, Gary K. W.; Ma, Xiaojuan; Dillenbourg, Pierre; Huan, John (ACM Inroads, 2020)

Government spending €500m for TVET projects (2020)
The government is investing over 500 million Euros to promote Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the country.
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An inclusive approach to searching for evidence on EdTech in low- and middle- income countries - Brugha, Meaghan (The EdTech Hub, 2020)
A blog post by Meaghan Brugha and Katy Jordan. A searchable database The EdTech Hub has undertaken a large-scale search for publications on technology use in education in low- and middle- income countries. During this process, we created an internal research database. This is searchable through the use of a variety of filters, such as …
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Keywords: _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Portugal PRT; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _zenodoODE

Government of St Lucia deprives 8,000 students ‘one-laptop-per child programme’ - Editorma (Caribbean News Global, 2020)
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Barriers to Education for Girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Bolton, Laura (2020)
There was little published literature on the barriers to girls’ education in the DRC. The main findings of the research suggest that cultural history, economic lack, and the coexistence of these are the main factors hindering access to girls’ education. Limited data suggest that inequality is less significant at primary age so looking at problems for both boys and girls is likely to be relevant. At adolescence the gap is wider and the barriers are more gendered. This review synthesises evidence on barriers hindering access to education the reasons for low attainment or achievement levels for girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Other barriers identified include: early/forced marriage, parents’ lack of interest in childrens’ activities and low value placed on schooling, and children’s disinterest in school due to lack of school quality. The research provides a very useful insight but there is agreement1 that there are distinct regional differences in the DRC. For example, rural areas have more children out of school than urban areas. Recommendations for improved learning outcomes from DFID Girls’ Education Challenge include: coaching for teachers alongside structured teaching materials, extra-curricular clubs and activities, collection of data for planning, working with boys and men to improve gender inequality, and promoting change at all levels (community, school and national).
Accepted: 2020-03-30T13:32:46Z Publisher: IDS KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:BFEFTX62 4869029:ZM499KP7
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Elimu Scholarship Programme 2021 - Elimu Centre (Elimu Centre, 2020)
Elimu scholarship programme is sponsored by Kenya government, Equity Bank and World Bank. The programme benefits students from poor background

Geospatial Analysis: A New Window Into Educational Equity, Access, and Opportunity - Cobb, Casey D. (Review of Research in Education, 2020)
A robust body of geographic education policy research has been amassing over the past 25 years, as researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds have recognized the value of examining education phenomena from a spatial perspective. In this chapter, I synthesize 42 studies that examine education issues using a geographic information system, or GIS. The review is framed by the major thread that runs through this body of research: educational equity, access, and opportunity. I summarize the research within seven theme-based research topics and offer examples of geospatial analysis as applied to education. The chapter includes a discussion of the major barriers and limitation facing GIS researchers and offers thoughts about the future.
Publisher: American Educational Research Association
Keywords: Lebanon_event_2021; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chile CHL; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Can children benefit from early internet exposure? Short- and long-term links between internet use, digital skill, and academic performance - Hurwitz, Lisa B.; Schmitt, Kelly L. (Computers & Education, 2020)
Educational policymakers are optimistic that providing young children access to technology can catalyze academic achievement and eventual positive labor market outcomes. However, possessing digital skill – or the ability to use technology effectively – might be necessary for young children to realize measurable benefits from the Internet. In the present longitudinal study, we explored whether Internet use and digital skill in early childhood predicted academic performance in middle childhood. We surveyed 101 US parents when their children were roughly 5 years and 11 years, collecting data on children's Internet use, digital skill, and academic performance. Structural equation modeling revealed that children's time online in early childhood was a marginally significant negative predictor of middle childhood academic performance, but digital skill in early childhood was a marginally significant positive predictor (ps < .1). Moreover, digital skill in early childhood indirectly influenced middle childhood academic performance via middle childhood digital skill. Early childhood digital skill significantly predicted middle childhood digital skill, which was significantly and positively associated with school performance. These findings suggest that allowing young children to engage with digital technologies for some amount of can be beneficial, provided that children use that time fruitfully to acquire digital skill.
Keywords: 21st century abilities; Early years education; Elementary education

Open peer-review platform for COVID-19 preprints - Johansson, Michael A.; Saderi, Daniela (Nature, 2020)
Illustration of paper under a magnifying glass
ADS Bibcode: 2020Natur.579...29J KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1038/d41586-020-00613-4 2129771:7WKAK569
Keywords: _genre:PR-primary_research

Knowledge management in higher education: a literature review and further research avenues - Quarchioni, Sonia; Paternostro, Sergio; Trovarelli, Francesca (Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 2020)
Despite the growing interest in knowledge management (KM) for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), research on this topic is still fragmented and loosely focused. This paper adds to this research by providing a state-of-the-art of the current literature and outlining overlooked areas of investigation in order to address further studies towards bridging this gap. To this purpose, through a systematic review process, 121 articles have been coded and analysed according to distinct dimensions. Findings reveal that, despite the growing trend of papers on the topic, research on KM in HEIs is still in its embryonic stage with high levels of heterogeneity and lack of wider theoretical constructs. Furthermore, a thematic analysis highlights six main research concepts, from which this paper derives a comprehensive framework integrating the key issues from the literature and suggesting new possible research avenues in the field.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/14778238.2020.1730717
Keywords: Knowledge management; higher education; intellectual capital; systematic literature review; universities

"Beyond Free Textbooks" - Jasmine Roberts live from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library (2020)
Jasmine Roberts [Ohio State University] presents "Beyond Free Textbooks: How OER Addresses Access, Inclusion, and Academic Excellence" in a talk given in Main Library 220 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Education Policies and Teacher Deployment in Northern Ireland: Ethnic Separation, Cultural Encapsulation and Community Cross-Over - Milliken, Matthew; Bates, Jessica; Smith, Alan (British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020)
Education is a key mechanism for the restoration of inter-community relations in post-conflict societies. The Northern Ireland school system remains divided along sectarian lines. Much research has been conducted into the efficacy of initiatives developed to bring children together across this divide but there has been an absence of studies into the impact of educational division on teachers. A number of policies, separately and in combination, restrict teachers’ options to move across and between the divided school sectors. The recruitment of teachers is excepted from fair employment legislation; details of teachers’ community identity are consequently not collected, and little is known about the impact that ethnic identity, educational policies and sectoral practices have had on teacher deployment. This quantitative project investigates the extent to which the deployment of teachers in mainstream schools in Northern Ireland reflects the enduring community divide. It is observed that, whilst primary schools are staffed mainly by community-consistent teachers, there has been an increase in cross-over teachers in post-primary schools – particularly in the grammar sector. Around one-in-five teachers have had no educational experience outside of their community of origin; this cultural encapsulation may contribute to a reluctance to engage with contentious issues in reconciliation programmes.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2019.1666083
Keywords: Northern Ireland; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Poland POL; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; community division; cultural encapsulation; post-conflict education; teacher identity

Using education technology to support learners with special educational needs and disabilities in low- and middle-income countries - Coflan, Caitlin Moss; Kaye, Thomas (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Keywords: L:Special education needs and disabilities (SEND); LP: English; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Lesotho LSO; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _EdTechHub_Output; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _cover:v1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _zenodoETH; docs.opendeved.net; dode_eth-src-dode

COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2020)
A record number of children and youth are not attending school because of closures mandated by governments in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Distance learning solutions - https://plus.google.com/+UNESCO (UNESCO, 2020)
Below is a list of educational applications and platforms to help parents, teachers, schools and school systems facilitate student learning and provide social caring and interaction during periods of school closure. While these solutions do not carry UNESCO’s explicit endorsement, they tend to have wide reach, a strong user-base and evidence of impact. Most of the solutions
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Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures - Kerwin, Jason T.; Thornton, Rebecca L. (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020)
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Keywords: Final_citation

Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures - Kerwin, Jason T.; Thornton, Rebecca L. (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020)
This paper demonstrates the acute sensitivity of education program effectiveness to the choices of inputs and outcome measures, using a randomized evaluation of a mother-tongue literacy program. The program raises reading scores by 0.64SDs and writing scores by 0.45SDs. A reduced-cost version instead yields statistically-insignificant reading gains and some large negative effects (-0.33SDs) on advanced writing. We combine a conceptual model of education production with detailed classroom observations to examine the mechanisms driving the results; we show they could be driven by the program initially lowering productivity before raising it, and potentially by missing complementary inputs in the reduced-cost version.
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Keywords: NULP; interesting

Can Facebook groups enhance continuing professional development of teachers? Lessons from Kenya - Bett, Harry; Makewa, Lazarus (Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Can Facebook groups enhance continuing professional development of teachers? Lessons from Kenya - Bett, Harry; Makewa, Lazarus (Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020)
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for teachers in Kenya suffers from challenges such as inadequate resources, poor planning, competing interests, among others. Besides being traditional in approach, most CPD sessions are far between to be meaningfully helpful. With increasing uptake of technology and number of social media users in Kenya, Facebook can be a potential platform to enhance teachers’ professional development. This exploratory cross-sectional survey focussed on discussions teachers had in the month of February 2015 on one Facebook Group named ‘Teachers of English’. A directed content analysis of the 647 posts following Shulman’s category of teacher knowledge base revealed that interactions on the group centred on the teaching of English and Literature, as well as on other education-related matters. This study concludes that that Facebook Groups can be fertile avenues for teachers’ ongoing professional development, especially in developing countries where such opportunities are scarce.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2018.1542662 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/1359866X.2018.1542662 10.1080/1359866x.2018.1542662 10/gg3988 2339240:FPKG4LA8 2405685:9BBCI3GD 2405685:9EFWDEUR 2534378:BJ75PKH4 2534378:F8XIDPG4 2534378:FNUR2CDH 2534378:N4ZG4GTY
Keywords: Content analysis; Education–Teaching Methods And Curriculum; English teachers; Facebook Groups; Kenya; Professional development; Social networks; Teacher education; Teachers; __:import:02; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2425933; __finaldtb; professional development

Zero-rate mobile services for health, education and development now - Harrison, David (The Mail & Guardian, 2020)
Operators must work together — if each network picks which sites to zero-rate, access to information will be determined by the colour of a person’s sim card
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Can technology help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on education systems in Europe and Central Asia? - Patrinos, Harry; Shmis, Tigran (World Bank, 2020)
With the need to contain the virus, many countries are implementing measures to reduce gatherings of large crowds.
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Geospatial variation in measles vaccine coverage through routine and campaign strategies in Nigeria: Analysis of recent household surveys - Utazi, C. Edson; Wagai, John; Pannell, Oliver; Cutts, Felicity T.; Rhoda, Dale A.; Ferrari, Matthew J.; Dieng, Boubacar; Oteri, Joseph; Danovaro-Holliday, M. Carolina; Adeniran, Adeyemi; Tatem, Andrew J. (Vaccine, 2020)
Measles vaccination campaigns are conducted regularly in many low- and middle-income countries to boost measles control efforts and accelerate progress towards elimination. National and sometimes first-level administrative division campaign coverage may be estimated through post-campaign coverage surveys (PCCS). However, these large-area estimates mask significant geographic inequities in coverage at more granular levels. Here, we undertake a geospatial analysis of the Nigeria 2017–18 PCCS data to produce coverage estimates at 1 × 1 km resolution and the district level using binomial spatial regression models built on a suite of geospatial covariates and implemented in a Bayesian framework via the INLA-SPDE approach. We investigate the individual and combined performance of the campaign and routine immunization (RI) by mapping various indicators of coverage for children aged 9–59 months. Additionally, we compare estimated coverage before the campaign at 1 × 1 km and the district level with predicted coverage maps produced using other surveys conducted in 2013 and 2016–17. Coverage during the campaign was generally higher and more homogeneous than RI coverage but geospatial differences in the campaign’s reach of previously unvaccinated children are shown. Persistent areas of low coverage highlight the need for improved RI performance. The results can help to guide the conduct of future campaigns, improve vaccination monitoring and measles elimination efforts. Moreover, the approaches used here can be readily extended to other countries.
Keywords: Geospatial analysis; Measles vaccine; Post-campaign coverage survey; Routine immunization; Supplementary immunization activities

The role of research preprints in the academic response to the COVID-19 epidemic - Brierley, Liam (2020)
The current outbreak of COVID-19 has escalated into a global health crisis. Investigations into the epidemic have taken place upon an unprecedented stage of rapid, open-platform science, including vastly improved access to unreviewed preprint research. I quantified preprint responses to COVID-19 by examining 785 preprints posted to English-language preprint servers (bioRxiv, n = 140; medRxiv, n = 561; arXiv, n = 84). Preprint research during the current outbreak has been enormously accelerated, with an average of 11.9 preprints posted per day-over a hundred-fold higher than that during 2014's West African ebolavirus outbreak. While this boom in preprints has enabled valuable knowledge sharing of scientific developments, novel challenges have become apparent. Unfounded conclusions from unreviewed research have played a clear role in public misinformation about the epidemic. I provide recommendations to improve accountability and transparency surrounding preprints, a vital step for future outbreaks as open-platform epidemiology continues to advance.

Impact of e-Learning Technology and Activity-Based Learning on Learning Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Community Schools in Rural Zambia - Hoop, Thomas; Ring, Hannah; Siwach, Garima; Dias, Paula; Tembo, Gelson; Rothbard, Victoria; Toungui, Anaïs (2020)
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a multi-faceted program that integrates technology into education, provides ongoing teacher training and professional development, includes community ownership, and offers free primary education. Our setting is three districts in relatively impoverished areas of rural Zambia, where we randomly assigned the program across 30 treatment and 33 control schools. We compared all children who were eligible to enroll in first grade living near the 30 treatment schools with eligible children who lived near the 33 control schools 14 months after the program start. The results show that the program, on average, increased early grade reading scores with 0.40 standard deviations or 3.5 percentage points, early grade math scores with 0.22 standard deviations or 4.9 percentage points, the Zambian achievement test scores with 0.16 standard deviations or 3.1 percentage points, and oral vocabulary scores with 0.25 standard deviations or 6.0 percentage points for all children who were eligible to enroll in first grade during the baseline survey. Treatment Effects on the Treated showed substantially larger impacts on test scores of students who enrolled in Grade 1 (ranging from 0.26 to 0.68 standard deviations) and students who regularly attended the schools in Grade 1 (ranging from 0.32 to 0.83 standard deviations). Mixed-methods evidence suggested the positive effects were primarily driven by increase in school enrolment, improvements in the quality of education, increases in school attendance for both teachers and children, and strong fidelity of program implementation. Our results indicate that well-designed multi-faceted technology-aided instruction programs can improve learning outcomes even in the poorest areas of rural sub-Saharan Africa.
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Remote Learning, Distance Education and Online Learning During the COVID19 Pandemic - World Bank (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020)

Strengthening the Governance of Skills Systems: Lessons from Six OECD Countries - Di Maio, Gina; Seitzl, Lina; Unterweger, Daniel Franz (2020)
Publisher: OECD Publishing KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:HA632ZLW
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Mobile phone data and COVID-19: Missing an opportunity? - Oliver, Nuria; Letouzé, Emmanuel; Sterly, Harald; Delataille, Sébastien; De Nadai, Marco; Lepri, Bruno; Lambiotte, Renaud; Benjamins, Richard; Cattuto, Ciro; Colizza, Vittoria; de Cordes, Nicolas; Fraiberger, Samuel P.; et al. (arXiv:2003.12347 [cs], 2020)
This paper describes how mobile phone data can guide government and public health authorities in determining the best course of action to control the COVID-19 pandemic and in assessing the effectiveness of control measures such as physical distancing. It identifies key gaps and reasons why this kind of data is only scarcely used, although their value in similar epidemics has proven in a number of use cases. It presents ways to overcome these gaps and key recommendations for urgent action, most notably the establishment of mixed expert groups on national and regional level, and the inclusion and support of governments and public authorities early on. It is authored by a group of experienced data scientists, epidemiologists, demographers and representatives of mobile network operators who jointly put their work at the service of the global effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
arXiv: 2003.12347 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:YG2FCJD6
Keywords: Computer Science - Computers and Society; __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Spillover of COVID-19: Impact on the Global Economy - Ozili, Peterson K.; Arun, Thankom (Social Science Research Network, 2020)
How did a health crisis translate to an economic crisis? Why did the spread of the coronavirus bring the global economy to its knees? The answer lies in two methods by which coronavirus stifled economic activities. First, the spread of the virus encouraged social distancing which led to the shutdown of financial markets, corporate offices, businesses and events. Second, the exponential rate at which the virus was spreading, and the heightened uncertainty about how bad the situation could get, led to flight to safety in consumption and investment among consumers, investors and international trade partners. We focus on the period from the start of 2020 through March when the coronavirus began spreading into other countries and markets. We draw on real-world observations in assessing the restrictive measures, monetary policy measures, fiscal policy measures and the public health measures that were adopted during the period. We empirically examine the impact of social distancing policies on economic activities and stock market indices. The findings reveal that the increasing number of lockdown days, monetary policy decisions and international travel restrictions severely affected the level of economic activities and the closing, opening, lowest and highest stock price of major stock market indices. In contrast, the imposed restriction on internal movement and higher fiscal policy spending had a positive impact on the level of economic activities, although the increasing number of confirmed coronavirus cases did not have a significant effect on the level of economic activities.
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Keywords: COVID-19; Central banks.; Coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; financial crisis; fiscal policy; global recession; liquidity provision; monetary policy; outbreak; pandemic; public health; social distancing; spillovers

UNICEF scales up support to keep children learning, as COVID-19 forces schools to close - UNICEF (2020)
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Week 2 - Laura Czerniewicz - Equity and Care in Moving Online (2020)
Laura Czerniewicz shares experiences this past year in South Africa and offers insight and guidance for educators now confronting a forced move online #PivotOnline Course - https://www.edx.org/course/pivoting-t... - https://linkresearchlab.org/pivot/
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Effects of Classroom Environment on Learning - Blaker, Andrew; Andrew, Blaker (甲南大学マネジメント創造学部HSMR編集委員会, 2020)
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Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Evidence on Efforts to Mitigate the Negative Educational Impact of Past Disease Outbreaks - Hallgarten, Joe (2020)
This rapid review focusses on efforts to mitigate the educational impact of previous disease outbreaks, concentrating on school-age learners. It follows two companion papers that reviewed broader secondary effects and attempts to mitigate them (Rohwerder, 2020; Kelly, 2020). It aims to inform the education sector’s responses to the COVID-19 crisis, although there are important differences between previous disease outbreaks and the COVID-19 situation. For instance, unlike Ebola, transmission of COVID-19 is asymptomatic, and the outbreak is global. This review finds a limited range of quantitative evidence on the educational impact of disease outbreaks, and minimal evidence on mitigation measures or their impact. Although several ‘lessons learned’ documents include guidelines and recommendations (and now complemented by many education-focused COVID-responsive blogs), this review finds that these are rarely based on evidence of impact of particular interventions, or on evidence of the impact of different approaches to action, co-ordinations, funding or prioritisation. The review found four particular evidence gaps: First, how distance learning materials can support learners who do not have access to family members with the skills or time to help them. Second, a gap in the use of screen or internet-enabled technologies to support alternative education. Third (and related), a gap in remote teacher training and development during school closures. Finally, the review analysed gender and equity issues but did not find any literature that explored disability. The education in emergencies literature has an emerging evidence base across all four themes within refugee education contexts, but has not yet learnt from or applied this evidence to disease outbreak situations.
Accepted: 2020-04-01T14:55:07Z Publisher: IDS KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:JTXU7CPC 4869029:HJXJ9THI
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures - Kerwin, Author Jason (Jason Kerwin, 2020)
I’m very happy to announce that my paper with Rebecca Thornton, “Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures”, has been accepted by the Review of Economics and Statistics. An un-gated copy of the final pre-print is available here. Here’s the abstract of the paper: This paper demonstrates … Continue reading "Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures"
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Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures [blog post] - Kerwin, Jason; Thornton, Rebecca (Jason Kerwin, 2020)
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Keywords: C:Uganda; NULP; interesting

Learning through television in low-income contexts: mitigating the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) - Watson, Joe (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. Written by Joe Watson, research assistant at the University of Cambridge One of the many consequences of COVID-19 is that more than a billion caregivers will soon face the stark (and often scary) realisation that they must become their children’s teachers. This will be particularly difficult in low-income contexts where…
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

a2i: Innovate for All - a2i (2020)
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Sprint 7 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 7 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevED; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality - Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane; Tertilt, Michèle (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020)
The economic downturn caused by the current COVID-19 outbreak has substantial implications for gender equality, both during the downturn and the subsequent recovery. Compared to “regular” recessions, which affect men’s employment more severely than women’s employment, the employment drop related to social distancing measures has a large impact on sectors with high female employment shares. In addition, closures of schools and daycare centers have massively increased child care needs, which has a particularly large impact on working mothers. The effects of the crisis on working mothers are likely to be persistent, due to high returns to experience in the labor market. Beyond the immediate crisis, there are opposing forces which may ultimately promote gender equality in the labor market. First, businesses are rapidly adopting flexible work arrangements, which are likely to persist. Second, there are also many fathers who now have to take primary responsibility for child care, which may erode social norms that currently lead to a lopsided distribution of the division of labor in house work and child care.
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UCT Low Tech Remote Teaching Guidelines - CILT (Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, 2020)
University of Cape Town Low Tech Remote Teaching Principles Teaching and learning remotely during a global pandemic is a challenging task for everyone. Keep it simple for you and your students. CILT will help you move your course online: reach out to us at help@vula.uct.ac.za, use the rem...
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Public Universities with a Public Conscience - A Proposed Plan.pdf - Concerned Academics (2020)
A Proposed Plan for a Social Pedagogy Alternative in the Time of Pandemic
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Overview of emerging country-level response to providing educational continuity under COVID-19: What’s working? What isn’t? - Joynes, Chris; Gibbs, Emma; Sims, Kate (2020)
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Keywords: COV:COVID and reopening of schools; LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _cover:other:ok; _zenodoETH; ⛔ No DOI found

Konnect- My School - Konnect Portal (Konnect, 2020)
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কিশোর বাতায়ন - Konnect YouTube Channel - Konnect Portal (Youtube, 2020)
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ভূ-অভ্যন্তরের গঠন ।। BGS ।। শ্রেণি নবম, অধ্যায় ৩য় ।। আমার ঘরে আমার স্কুল - Konnect Portal (2020)
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Five Findings from a New Phone Survey in Senegal - Le Nestour, Alexis; Moscoviz, Laura (Center For Global Development, 2020)
Better data can help us have a better response for COVID, so we piloted a mobile phone survey on 1,000+ respondents in Senegal in partnership with the Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Économique et Social. We published the results of the survey yesterday and we are now publishing some of the key findings.
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Keywords: _COVID_DEAA-List

Phone survey on the Covid crisis in Senegal - Le Nestour, Alexis; Moscoviz, Laura; Mbaye, Samba (Centre for Global Development, 2020)
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Keywords: _COVID-Continuity-Blogpost-01

Using Interactive Radio Instruction to Mitigate the Educational Impact of Covid-19: A curated resource list - McBurnie, Chris (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Using Interactive Radio Instruction to mitigate the educational impact of COVID-19: a curated resource list - McBurnie, Chris (2020)
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; COV:COVID and reopening of schools; F: Helpdesk response; H:Radio; LP: English; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Zambia ZMB; _EdTechHub_Output; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ___duplicate_item; _cover:v1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _zenodoETH; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Interactive Radio and Audio Instruction Resources: Kenya - USAID (2020)
The following interactive radio and audio instruction resources are provided by programs that have been implemented in Kenya. Each program includes a description and a file set that can be used as part of a distance learning approach. , Related Looking for options for distance or audio education for your country? Submit Request , Kenya Radio Language Arts Project The Kenya Radio Language Arts project, implemented by FHI360, was an ambitious, innovative effort to show that "interactive radio instruction" - a method which fosters continuous interaction between children and the radio characters - can substantially improve the teaching
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Schools, skills, and learning: The impact of COVID-19 on education - Burgess, Simon; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik (VoxEU.org, 2020)
The global lockdown of education institutions is going to cause major (and likely unequal) interruption in students’ learning; disruptions in internal assessments; and the cancellation of public assessments for qualifications or their replacement by an inferior alternative. This column discusses what can be done to mitigate these negative impacts.

Working From Home Under COVID-19: Who Is Affected? Evidence From Latin American and Caribbean Countries - Delaporte, Isaure; Pena, Werner (Social Science Research Network, 2020)
Millions of individuals are required to work from home as part of national efforts to fight COVID-19. To evaluate the employment impact of the pandemic, an important point is whether individuals are able to work from home. This paper estimates the share of jobs that can be performed at home in 23 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries as well as examines the workers' characteristics associated with such jobs. To carry out this analysis, this paper uses rich harmonised household surveys and presents two measures of teleworkability. The first measure of the feasibility of working from home is borrowed from Dingel and Neiman (2020), while the second closely follows the methodology of Saltiel (2020). We use the second measure as our benchmark, as it is based on a more representative task content of occupations for LAC countries. We find that the share of individuals who are able to work from home varies from 7% in Guatemala to 16% in the Bahamas. We document considerable variation in the potential to work from home across occupations, industries, regions and workers' socioeconomic characteristics. Our results show that some individuals are better positioned to cope with the current situation than others. This highlights the need to assist the most vulnerable workers in the context of the global pandemic.
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Keywords: COVID-19; Demographics; Employment; Teleworking

A systematic review of immersive virtual reality applications for higher education: Design elements, lessons learned, and research agenda - Radianti, Jaziar; Majchrzak, Tim A.; Fromm, Jennifer; Wohlgenannt, Isabell (Computers & Education, 2020)
Researchers have explored the benefits and applications of virtual reality (VR) in different scenarios. VR possesses much potential and its application in education has seen much research interest lately. However, little systematic work currently exists on how researchers have applied immersive VR for higher education purposes that considers the usage of both high-end and budget head-mounted displays (HMDs). Hence, we propose using systematic mapping to identify design elements of existing research dedicated to the application of VR in higher education. The reviewed articles were acquired by extracting key information from documents indexed in four scientific digital libraries, which were filtered systematically using exclusion, inclusion, semi-automatic, and manual methods. Our review emphasizes three key points: the current domain structure in terms of the learning contents, the VR design elements, and the learning theories, as a foundation for successful VR-based learning. The mapping was conducted between application domains and learning contents and between design elements and learning contents. Our analysis has uncovered several gaps in the application of VR in the higher education sphere—for instance, learning theories were not often considered in VR application development to assist and guide toward learning outcomes. Furthermore, the evaluation of educational VR applications has primarily focused on usability of the VR apps instead of learning outcomes and immersive VR has mostly been a part of experimental and development work rather than being applied regularly in actual teaching. Nevertheless, VR seems to be a promising sphere as this study identifies 18 application domains, indicating a better reception of this technology in many disciplines. The identified gaps point toward unexplored regions of VR design for education, which could motivate future work in the field.
Keywords: Augmented and virtual reality; Cooperative/collaborative learning; Distance education and online learning; Human–computer interface; Media in education

Open educational practices of MOOC designers: embodiment and epistemic location - Adam, Taskeen (Distance Education, 2020)
This article reports the lack of epistemic diversity in producers of massive open online courses (MOOCs) through examining whose knowledges and what knowledges are forefronted in MOOCs. Through analysis of 27 semi-structured interviews, the study explored the relationship between South African MOOC designers and their open educational practices (OEP), questioning in what ways MOOC designers enact openness in their design, based on their own reasoning of what openness means. The study illustrates that MOOC designers create MOOCs that strongly link to who they are, what they value, and how they understand the world, highlighting the crucial need to have epistemically diverse MOOC designers from different cultures, value systems, and epistemologies, that critically reflect on their positionalities and subjectivities. From this, the study asserts a new way of looking at OEP where MOOC designers go beyond implementing OEP, to being someone who is open. I termed this the embodiment of openness.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757405 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/01587919.2020.1757405 4804264:93QCDBDG
Keywords: Final_citation; MOOC designer; OEP; cited; critical consciousness; embodiment; epistemic location; existing; positionality

Open educational practices of MOOC designers: embodiment and epistemic location - Adam, Taskeen (Distance Education, 2020)
This article reports the lack of epistemic diversity in producers of massive open online courses (MOOCs) through examining whose knowledges and what knowledges are forefronted in MOOCs. Through analysis of 27 semi-structured interviews, the study explored the relationship between South African MOOC designers and their open educational practices (OEP), questioning in what ways MOOC designers enact openness in their design, based on their own reasoning of what openness means. The study illustrates that MOOC designers create MOOCs that strongly link to who they are, what they value, and how they understand the world, highlighting the crucial need to have epistemically diverse MOOC designers from different cultures, value systems, and epistemologies, that critically reflect on their positionalities and subjectivities. From this, the study asserts a new way of looking at OEP where MOOC designers go beyond implementing OEP, to being someone who is open. I termed this the embodiment of openness.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757405 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/01587919.2020.1757405 2129771:32FCTZAV 2129771:XAGDW5SL
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; MOOC designer; OEP; __C:filed:1; critical consciousness; embodiment; epistemic location; positionality

Affordances, challenges, and impact of open pedagogy: examining students’ voices - Baran, Evrim; AlZoubi, Dana (Distance Education, 2020)
Open pedagogy has emerged as an important teaching and learning practice while the current global open education resources movement has developed. The present research addresses the need to develop and conceptualize open pedagogy models in higher education contexts. This case study examined student perspectives on the affordances, challenges, and impact of an open pedagogy approach implemented within the context of three higher education courses. Various renewable assignments were integrated into face-to-face, blended, and online courses. Data sources consisted of reflection reports and semi-structured interviews conducted with 13 student participants. The qualitative analysis revealed six themes that conceptualized student engagement with open pedagogy: content curation, peer feedback, community engagement, development, reflection, and scaffolding. We discuss the impact of these practices on the participating students’ knowledge and awareness of open access and student agency. The results present an open pedagogy in action model with recommendations for future research and practice.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757409
Keywords: higher education; open educational practices (OEP); open educational resources (OER); open pedagogy; renewable assignments

Inclusive open education: presumptions, principles, and practices - Croft, Benjamin; Brown, Monica (Distance Education, 2020)
Open education has long been forwarded as a producer of equity. However, there currently exists a lack of critical engagement with issues of justice in open educational practices (OEP). Although the affordances of open education have potential for increasing equity, creating knowledge alongside learners is inherently rife with complexities for inclusion and diversity. As online faculty build relationships with and between students and engage in unconventional but authentic instruction, they must be cognizant of the ways in which historically underrepresented populations are systematically marginalized and might be excluded from full participation. This article seeks to investigate tensions at the nexus of OEP and social justice, identify underlying principles of inclusive OEP, and offer initial strategies on using OEP inclusively and in alignment with a social justice framework.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757410
Keywords: marginalization; open education; open educational practices; open pedagogy; social identity; social justice

Social annotation enabling collaboration for open learning - Kalir, Jeremiah H. (Distance Education, 2020)
Collaboration is a conceptually ambiguous aspect of open education. Given inconsistent discussion about collaboration in the open education literature, this article suggests collaboration be defined and studied as a distinct open educational practice. A theoretical stance from the discipline of computer-supported collaborative learning helps conceptualize collaboration as processes of intersubjective meaning-making. Social annotation is then presented as a genre of learning technology that can productively enable group collaboration and shared meaning-making. After introducing an open learning project utilizing social annotation for group dialogue, analysis of interview and annotation data details how social annotation enabled three group-level epistemic expressions delineating collaboration as intersubjective meaning-making and as an open educational practice. A summative discussion considers how the social life of documents encourages collaboration, why attention to epistemic expression is a productive means of articulating open learning, and how to extend the study of collaboration as an open educational practice.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757413
Keywords: annotation; collaboration; computer-supported collaborative learning; open educational practices (OEP); social design experiment

Ascertaining impacts of capacity building in open educational practices - Karunanayaka, Shironica P.; Naidu, Som (Distance Education, 2020)
Interest in the adoption of open educational practices (OEP) is growing, and the strongest arguments in its favor are that the adoption of such practices has the best chances of making education affordable and accessible to all. However, engagement with such practices requires the adoption of a fundamentally different set of beliefs and value systems about the role of education and educational resources in the development of societies. The development of these beliefs and values are achievable through a combination of strategies. These include appropriate policies, as well as capacity building through sustained engagement in carefully designed learning experiences, which involves people reflecting on authentic problems and situations around the adoption of OEP. The impacts of such capacity building are difficult to ascertain because they are an outcome of a combination of factors involving the practitioners themselves, their educational context, as well as their views about intellectual property, its ownership, and role in educational development. This article discusses our approach to shifting the mindsets of practitioners around OEP and ascertaining its impacts on them.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757406
Keywords: MOOC design; capacity building; impacts; open educational practices; shifting perceptions and perspectives

Critical Questions for Open Educational Practices - Koseoglu, Suzan; Bozkurt, Aras; Havemann, Leo (Distance Education, 2020)
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1775341

Who opens online distance education, to whom, and for what? - Lee, Kyungmee (Distance Education, 2020)
In the previous era of open educational practices (OEP) based around distance teaching, its actors and their target group were clear to define: open universities and disadvantaged learners. In this new era of OEP linked to digitalized open educational resources, there are multiple actors and beneficiaries of OEP. This critical literature review examined numerous scholarly narratives about OEP in online distance education, by asking a simple but important question: “Who opens online distance education, to whom, and for what?”. The results suggest that despite the growing importance on the social mission to make Education for All among diverse actors, clear understanding of the actual process of OEP in real-life higher education settings and clarity on how those actors actually serve disadvantaged learners are lacking. This article suggests that we refocus our OEP effort on opening higher education to the disadvantaged and collecting real-life stories of OEP and the disadvantaged.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757404
Keywords: distance education; online education; open educational practices; open educational resources; open university

The soul behind the screen:understanding cultural enrichment as a motivation of informal MOOC learning - Lochlainn, Conchúr Mac; Mhichíl, Mairéad Nic Giolla; Beirne, Elaine; Brown, Mark (Distance Education, 2020)
This article explores the role of culture and the concept of openness as they relate to learning using a massive open online course which teaches the Irish language and Irish culture to learners around the world. It explores how best to describe the meaning of such learning, and the social, material, and relational tensions that exist in such provision. Using a qualitative case study design, we analyzed a collection of 3507 learner comments placed on key reflective steps throughout the course. From the analysis of learner experiences, motivations, and opinions, we identified five major themes. We then examined the role of inequality, social justice, and lifelong learning in light of the themes. The article concludes with recommendations for further research, in addition to reflections on the value of small-scale case studies to explore the diversity inherent in MOOC provision.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757408
Keywords: massive open online course; online language learning; qualitative case study; social justice

Open educational practices (OEP) in the design of digital competence assessment - Maina, Marcelo Fabián; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Mancini, Federica; Ortiz, Lourdes Guàrdia (Distance Education, 2020)
This article presents the implementation of an assessment model for generic competences in K-12 enabled by open educational practices. It showcases a digital competence assessment model that outlines the design of competence assessment scenarios constructed by means of a collaborative process involving teachers from six European countries, learning designers, and researchers. Our study draws attention to the concept of open educational practices as a broad descriptor of four areas of teacher practice regarding design, content, teaching, and assessment. The process unfolds through three phases, where teachers’ engagement with collaborative processes and network-based tools facilitate the construction of active shared learning. It analyzes the joint creation of open practices, and the production of open educational resources. The scalability, flexibility, and adaptability of competence assessment scenarios underline their transferability to similar contexts. The experience may benefit educational institutions and communities of teachers interested in innovating and opening up education.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757407
Keywords: K-12 assessment; collaborative teaching; digital competence; open educational practices; pedagogy of integration

Maverick Citizen: Access to water and sanitation in South Africa: A renewed call for more action - Mudombi, Shakespear (Daily Maverick, 2020)
While the main discourse in accessing basic services such as water and sanitation focuses on universal access, in reality such access – as highlighted so starkly as the country attempts to halt the spread of the coronavirus – is not equitable.
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Supporting open educational practices through open textbooks - Pitt, Rebecca (Beck); Jordan, Katy; Arcos, Beatriz de los; Farrow, Robert; Weller, Martin (Distance Education, 2020)
There has been little research into the impact of textbook costs on higher education in the United Kingdom. To better understand textbook use patterns and the issues faced by UK students and educators the UK Open Textbooks Project (2017–2018, http://ukopentextbooks.org/)) conducted quantitative survey research with United Kingdom educators in September 2018. This article reports on the findings of this survey, which focussed on awareness of open educational resources; textbook use and rationale; awareness and use of open textbooks; and open licensing. Results reveal fertile ground for open textbook adoption with potential to support a wide range of open educational practices. The findings indicate strategies for supporting pedagogical innovation and student access through the mainstream adoption of open textbooks.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757411
Keywords: United Kingdom; higher education; open educational practices (OEP); open educational resources (OER); open pedagogy; open textbooks

Openness reexamined: teachers’ practices with open educational resources in online language teaching - Pulker, Hélène; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes (Distance Education, 2020)
Open educational practices (OEP) as a research field is relatively new. One aspect that has received limited attention is the impact of using open educational resources (OER) on the development of OEP. This article, based on a doctoral study (Pulker, 2019), considers teachers’ activities when reusing and adapting OER, with a view to providing evidence of reuse and understanding whether these activities influence teaching practices. A qualitative study following a constructivist grounded theory methodology was undertaken with 17 part-time online language teachers via semi-structured interviews. The article presents the five-step model of reuse that emerged from the data analysis. We suggest that OER reuse has a positive impact, even though teachers’ practices might not be open as defined up until now. A graphic representation depicts the process that teachers engage with when using and adapting OER. The research brings new understanding of teachers’ experiences of reuse, showing that the principal motivation is enhancing students’ learning.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757412
Keywords: OEP; OER; closed spaces; distance education; language teaching

PER6. The SABER-ICT policy framework in brief [Arabic] - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; language:Arabic

PER6. The SABER-ICT policy framework in brief [Arabic/English] - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevED; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; language:Arabic; language:English

PER6. The SABER-ICT policy framework in brief [English] - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; language:English

Arabic version of Design Thinking for Educators - Khalayleh, Abdullah (2020)
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Keywords: _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Learning remotely when schools close: How well are students and schools prepared? Insights from PISA - OECD (OECD, 2020)
As school after school shuts down in the face of the Covid-19 crisis (in now more than 140 countries), online learning opportunities have been elevated from a bonus extracurricular facility to a critical lifeline for education.
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Keywords: Final_citation; existing

Learning without Schools? Education, Relief, and Government Partnerships during COVID-19 - Skoll Foundation (2020)
Join to hear about how two large school systems, in Pakistan and West Africa, are partnering with governments and NGOs to educate children at home without internet access. This is a case study on how local leaders, including a Skoll Awardee, see the challenge of education, relief, and partnerships during COVID-19. Panel: - Susannah Hares, Center for Global Development - Mushtaq Chhapra, TCF Co-Founder - Riaz Kamlani, TCF EVP - Paul Skidmore, Rising Academy Network Moderator: Shashi Buluswar, UC Berkeley, Institute for Transformative Technologies
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Pandemic underscores gross inequalities in South Africa, and the need to fix them - Graham, Lauren (The Conversation, 2020)
While small businesses will be partially cushioned by government support measures, there's no support for the most vulnerable workers.
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Using evidence to help build and evaluate good ideas in education technology - Knight, Simon; Moeini, Anissa; Clark-Wilson, Alison (EduResearch Matters, 2020)
As researchers, we care that our educational systems improve, support all learners, and are grounded solidly in research evidence. But how do we work with stakeholders like educational technology s…
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Social protection responses to the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa - Devereux, Stephen (The Conversation, 2020)
Several groups of people are at high risk of hardship, especially those who have effectively become unemployed because of the lockdown.
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Class I + Class II (Accelerated Teaching Syllabi) - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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Class III + Class IV (Accelerated Teaching Syllabi) - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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Class V + Class VI (Accelerated Teaching Syllabi) - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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Education Consortium - Sierra Leone Secondary Education Improvement Programme (SSEIP) [zip] - SSEIP (2020)
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English, Class 01, Term 01, lesson plan - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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English, Class 01, Term 02, lesson plan - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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English, Class 01, Term 03, lesson plan - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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English, Class 02, Term 01, lesson plan - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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English, Class 02, Term 02, lesson plan - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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English, Class 02, Term 03, lesson plan - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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English, Class 04, Term 01, lesson plan - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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English, Class 04, Term 02, lesson plan - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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English, Class 04, Term 03, lesson plan - SSEIP (Zenodo, 2020)
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