8th IOCES International Conference Co-Convened with 5th WCCES Symposium

8th IOCES International Conference Co-Convened with 5th WCCES Symposium 

Theme: The Future is here:  Transforming with Urgency Education Systems for Equitable Rights to Quality Learning

Background and Rationale 

The COVID-19 pandemic has been unrelenting for the more than 2 years now, causing severe hardships to people and losses across the globe. The education systems have been disrupted continually with several schools scrambling to adapt to the online mode of learning. The results of this short-term approach to learning have been disastrous in most instances. Neither the teachers nor the school administrators had any prior experience with mainstream online teaching and learning. Therefore, with limited or even no professional support, most of them did what appeared to be the most appropriate choice – continue with the same curriculum, assessments, and teaching methods by using Zoom-type synchronous delivery tools. Yet, this is not a domain that lends itself to improvisation with positive…