Education in the Time of COVID: Bridging Inequalities in Access to Opportunities

• Main Author: Castillo, Paulynne J
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: Modular Distance Learning; inequality in access to opportunities; education in the time of COVID; distance learning; remote education; Covid-19; pandemic; education; Online and Distance Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/res_aki/99; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/res_aki/article/1096/viewcontent/Education_in_the_Time_of_COVID.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

In an attempt to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus, virtually all schools around the world were closed by the end of the first quarter of 2020. Following a brief hiatus, the majority of the countries opted to utilize variations of distance learning—as opposed to resuming face-to-face classes—to minimize disruptions in the education of the more than 1.5 billion students in 191 countries. In the Philippines, the remote education multi-modal approach took the following forms: the use of modules (Modular Distance Learning), radio/television-based instruction (R/TVI), and online facilities.