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The COVID 19 pandemic in March 2020 led to closure of schools in most countries across the globe. 1.2 billion children in 186 countries were affected by school closures due to the pandemic (World Economic Forum, April 2020).

Teachers and students across the education systems had to rapidly transition to remote online teaching and learning. Consequently, there was a massive and rapid expansion in digital infrastructure, with a shift from physical in-person classrooms to virtual classrooms, with remote online teaching. For the purpose of this discussion, remote online teaching means teaching in a virtual environment, using digital tools synchronously (e.g., web-conferencing tools like Zoom). Typically, the aim is to replicate the in-person classroom experience. Online teaching refers to courses specifically designed for online education with a range of synchronous and asynchronous approaches used.

This rapid expansion of the digital infrastructure and remote online teaching opened many opportunities in education. For example, it expanded access to students marginalized due to gender, poverty, location, or other forms of exclusion. Though it must be noted that there exists a ‘digital divide’ as the expansion is not equitably spread. Dilemmas also arose in relation to the quality of the pedagogic process, assessment of students’ learning, attainment of broader educational goals and not just academic achievement, among other.

Recognizing that virtual classrooms are likely to stay, merits and demerits of remote online teaching and learning need to be looked at. What could be a reasonable balance between remote online teaching and that in a physical in-person classroom? And at what level (primary, high school, tertiary)? This panel of highly experienced mathematics educators would lead the discussion on some of the issues noted above.

Slides:
Kyeong-Hwa Lee: https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/I...
Marcelo Borba: https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/I...