News - page 7

Until recently, getting a higher education was the only way to master a new profession and improve the necessary skills.

West Nashville Dream Center has created a 32-child classroom to support parents whose children are experiencing learning difficulties during the coronavirus pandemic.

A survey of Australian university students has determined that more than 75% find online learning more suitable than in-person lectures and seminars.

According to residents of several US states (including Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Connecticut and Pennsylvania), the Internet network of local providers is completely unprepared for online classes in universities and schools.

With a new app called Insta Novels, you can now read full-length novels in Instagram stories. Insta Novels was built as a media side project for the New York Public Library (NYPL). 

Instagram has partnered with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute to launch a new project — Instagram Local News Fellowship. It was created to test and develop new content promotion strategies on Instagram to attract a young audience. 

Due to the forced transition to a remote learning format, many students had to use applications to control their exams.

The students noted that the news about the Coronavirus causes their mood and concentration to drop, and makes them worry.

Residents of the Bulgarian city of Rus opposed the closure of kindergartens under quarantine.

Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University have filed a lawsuit against the US government.

Online learning can become much more efficient thanks to student data analysis and tracking educational progress.

In 2020, the education industry is challenged with many serious changes brought by the coronavirus situation. Advanced technologies helped a lot in adapting the educational process to changes.

This fall, millions of students in the USA started their classes in the distance learning format. Now students learn via various Internet platforms that make it possible to exchange information.

The venture capital fund Leta Capital, founded by a group of the best IT companies in the world, also acts as a partner of Rusbase, a publication about online technology and business.

In 2020, instead of compiling a traditional annual ranking of the best business schools, Bloomberg conducted a survey among students about MBA changes during the pandemic.

Eurostat has conducted a survey of EU citizens in the age group from 16 to 74 years. The survey showed that 8% of respondents took online courses in the last three months of 2019.

The Ministry of Education and Science (MES) of Kazakhstan has made a decision to stop streaming classes. According to Askhat Aimagambetov, all online lessons have been canceled.

The coronavirus was the main reason for the school closure in more than a hundred countries.

Teachers are ready to do a lot to share heir knowledge with their students. In India, like in many countries,  schools switched to online learning.

The online education market is booming in India. Its popularity is facilitated by low cost Internet access, as well as cheap smartphones.

The company, in partnership with the Indian state of Maharashtra, plans to provide access for  23 million students and teachers to its digital classroom services. 

According to a study by University College London, published in June, two million school children in Britain spend no more than two and a half hours a day learning online.

Due to the long pandemic and the large spread of the infection, the United States is asking foreign students to leave the country if their classes go fully online.

The Ministry of education and science of Kazakhstan regularly reported on the introduction of technologies that allow you to organise online training. However, the pandemic has shown that this has proven to be virtually impossible to implement in practice.