Attachments Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic has caused learning disruptions and resulted in learning loss, thereby heavily eroding the quality of education, especially in Africa. The pandemic also exacerbated issues that, traditionally, negatively impacted education in some countries. Despite the efforts of African countries to respond to school closures and ensure continued learning by quickly introducing changes in education policy and practice in response to the pandemic, such as having National Response Plans for remote education, they remain far from resiliently meeting issues of quality, continuity, inclusivity, and equity. Gaps in policy, connectivity, infrastructure, and remote learning systems, among others, have limited the opportunities for the learning environment to fully leverage the potential of digital learning technologies. A collaborative study conducted by the African Union Commission (AUC) and OECD explored how digital transformation creates quality jobs and greater resilience of African economies to the global recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic (OECD, 2021). The study covers the eastern, central, northern, southern, and western regions of the continent, and it found that the crisis brought about by the pandemic strengthens the role of digitalization in contributing to Africa’s productive transformation and in fulfilling Agenda 2063, which encapsulates the continent’s developmental […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
K&X Design and Investment Technology, LLC
Invest The Invisible Impact
