The current pandemic has highlighted the vital role that virtual learning environments (VLEs) can play in maintaining education, especially at a time when access to teachers has been significantly reduced for many students. It is clear that VLEs have the capacity to take some of the burden off teachers. Whilst this high level of dependence on technology is by no means sustainable, it does demonstrate how VLEs are well positioned to maintain engagement with learning, interact with students, and support teachers' workloads.
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The current pandemic has highlighted the vital role that virtual learning environments (VLEs) can play in maintaining education, especially at a time when access to teachers has been significantly reduced for many students. It is clear that VLEs have the capacity to take some of the burden off teachers. Whilst this high level of dependence on technology is by no means sustainable, it does demonstrate how VLEs are well positioned to maintain engagement with learning, interact with students, and support teachers' workloads.
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Although they believe the XGEST platform distance learning initiative launched by the Ministry of Education is worth trying out during the COVID-19 initiative, teachers, through their representative organisation, the Syndicat de l'Éducation Nationale say that they have strong reservations as to whether all students can access it. They therefore insist on a reorganisation of the school year when the situation returns to normal.
For the majority or learners, matric is the most challenging year of their school careers - even under normal circumstances. The current circumstances facing the Class of 2020 are unprecedented, and have caused massive upheaval and uncertainty on top of the challenges they would ordinarily have faced. Even so, there are ways learners can adjust and respond to ensure they still make a success of the year, an education expert says.
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The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has urged qualifying students to open bank accounts to ensure a more efficient disbursement of funds from institutions.
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The curriculum operates in a space where knowledge is recontextualised and organised for various pedagogical purposes. It also exists as a compelling site of personal, social, cultural, political and symbolic reflection.
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Covid-19 has ratcheted up online learning across the world as people are forced to stay at home to curb the spread of the pandemic. But what has been offered as an easy tech solution in place of face to face teaching time has highlighted deep inequality when it comes to broad connectivity, access to sophisticated hardware and, most revealingly, family stability in households to make online learning possible for some students.
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