EDweek: Coronavirus Prompting E-Learning Strategies
date：2020-06-01 20:29author：小编source：EDweekviews：
A teacher at Taipei American School teaches an English lesson to his students via a remote learning program while schools were closed in Taiwan to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Schools in other countries, including China and Japan, are also closed.
—Walid Berrazeg / SOPA Images
—Walid Berrazeg / SOPA Images
On the relatively rare occasions when disaster forces K-12 schools to close for a prolonged period of time, e-learning has helped fill the gap in instruction.
Asian countries affected by the SARS outbreak in 2003 turned to virtual instruction. When Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans in 2005, Louisiana Virtual School expanded its capacityto welcome students who weren't previously enrolled. Sixth to 12th graders who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy in 2012kept learning, thanks to New York state's e-learning platform and donated e-learning program licenses from several companies.
The coronavirus outbreak has prompted similar action in China and Hong Kong, where schools are closed indefinitely amid concerns over a virus that has claimed more than 2,800 lives and infected more than 83,000 people worldwide. Several private companies have begun helping schools offer virtual instruction to students, China's Ministry of Education has begun uploading K-12 courses to a national online database, and numerous American universities with Chinese campuses have transitioned to online courses.
Source: https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/03/04/coronavirus-prompting-e-learning-strategies.html
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