UNESCO:News Mongolia Students Embarked on Remote Learning in Response to Covid-19

date:2020-04-02 19:41author:adminsource:UNESCOviews:


With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in China December 2019 which has been spreading with an alarming speed, Mongolia, neighboring with 4700 km wide land and 13 border points with China, faced a high risk of being affected by the virus at the first.

Therefore, as a preventative measure to protect its citizens from this risk, the Government of Mongolia has suspended all educational deliveries and facilities starting from 26 January 2020. Meanwhile, in order to contiunue the studies of the students, the Government has prepared online courses and tele-lessons in several languages such as Mongolian, Kazakh, Tuvan and sign language which are available to the students, their parents, and teachers and are being delivered on 16 different television channels with a fixed daily ...


Since the school closure, 480 online courses and 206 textbooks have been uploaded to  educational website (www.econtent.edu.mn) and so far have reached more than 100,000 overlapping users.

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports of Mongolia has taken immediate actions to distribute the necessary education budget in the current emerging situation. 

As a result of the above mentioned preventative measures and immediate actions taken by the Government, the emerging cases of the virus are comparatively less. Up to the date of this news release, only 14 cases have been identified with COVID-19, all of which are transferred to Mongolia from affected countries. Two of them have recovered. 

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