Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List by the World Bank’s EdTech Team This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s EdTech Team (Last update: April 10th, 2020) For updated information, please visit the website: www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 1 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Contents Contents and Repositories ............................................................................................................................................................................. 5 National Learning Platforms......................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Other Platforms and Software ..................................................................................................................................................................... 27 I. Assessment ...................................................................................................................................................................................................27 II. File manager.................................................................................................................................................................................................29 III. Learning Management Systems ..................................................................................................................................................................30 IV. Training.........................................................................................................................................................................................................35 V. Video conference system .............................................................................................................................................................................36 Television and Radio .................................................................................................................................................................................... 38 2 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Introduction "Synchronous learning" (meaning that two or more learners are The selection of resources and platforms that you will find here connected simultaneously or in real-time using the same platform has been elaborated in order to facilitate the rapid identification or communication channel, for instance, a video conference) and of helpful technological solutions that could be used to support "asynchronous learning" (meaning that learners access the same remote learning. material at different times and locations, for instance, using a e-learning websites at different points). The list provided here is not meant to be comprehensive, however, the selection has been driven by prioritizing resources Additional resources and platforms have been included and solutions that are free (or freemium), offline friendly or are identifying digital learning resources provided by governments. available in more than one language (especially beyond, English). In the interest of improving the diversity of channels to deliver This list offers a glimpse of the kind of solutions that can be educational resources and guidance to students and teachers, incorporated to support remote learning for different contexts, you will find here a selection of examples which provide different levels of connectivity, levels of education or subject. modalities of educational television and interactive radio instruction. These additional resources are categorized by A growing list of repositories, selection of online libraries and country and language as well. compilation of educational resources, reading materials, lesson plans has been compiled here. You can also find here some of the In using these resources, please be aware of privacy and data initiatives adopted by different countries to deliver content and protection terms and conditions of the resources, described textbooks to the student (and parents). here. Where applicable, students must have parents or legal guardians read these terms with them. If you are looking for resources that can be used in environments with limited or no Internet access, you can select those Each of the categories included here will offer different resources that are categorized as "offline" (meaning that after pedagogical opportunities for educators and students. We hope downloading them you can use it in environments of no that this guide can be helpful in orienting and supporting the connectivity or does not require connectivity to use, as in the case educational crisis as a result of COVID-19. of analog television resources). In addition, when some platforms are categorized in terms of interaction, the distinction between World Bank EdTech Team synchronous and asynchronous might be of help. Twitter Handle: @WBedutech 3 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team 4 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Contents and Repositories Connectivity Conditions Target Name Description Subjects Format Mobile App Language Link Type of Use Group Arabic Chinese Czech Danish Dutch Filipino Finnish French German Hebrew Hindi A freely accessible online library Languages Hungarian that allows teachers and others to Arts Primarily Indonesian All https://www.oercom search and discover open Both (online & STEM Multiple Creative Italian OER Commons No (Primary to mons.org/advanced- educational resources (OER) and offline) Social formats Commons Japanese Graduate) search other freely available instructional Studies and license Korean materials. Humanities Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese An free, open education service. It Languages Multiple Some Rights https://www.curriki.o Curriki Online Yes English All provides open educational Arts formats Reserved rg/ 5 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team resources primarily in support of K- STEM 12 education. Curricula and Social instructional materials for teachers, Studies and professional educators, students, Humanities lifelong learners, and parents. English Arabic Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Finnish French A European Schoolnet (EUN) German product, this enables schools to find Greek Languages educational content from many Hebrew Arts Primarily From Learning different countries and providers. It Hindi STEM Multiple Creative kindergarten http://lreforschools.e Resource offers access to a network of Online No Hungarian Social formats Commons to high un.org/web/guest Exchange learning content repositories and Indonesian Studies and license school associated tools that ‘travel well’ Italian Humanities and can be used by teachers in Japanese different countries. Korean Malay Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Slovak Spanish Swedish Thai Houses peer-reviewed, openly Both (online & Languages Primarily English OpenStax Textbook Yes All https://cnx.org/ licensed textbooks, which are offline) Arts Creative Afrikaans 6 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team available in free digital formats and STEM Commons Arabic for a low cost in print. 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Humanities Spanish, French, ქართული, Italian, 7 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team 日本語, 한국어, Magyar, by polsku, Portuguese, svenska, Türkçe A library of over 60,000 free Languages eBooks. Choose among free epub Arts Works for and Kindle eBooks, download them Project Both (online & STEM Multiple which U.S. https://www.gutenbe or read them online. You will find No English All Gutenberg offline) Social formats copyright has rg.org/ the world’s great literature here, Studies and expired. with focus on older works for which Humanities U.S. copyright has expired. Primarily From Produces textbooks as OER through Both (online & Multiple Creative English kindergarten https://www.siyavula Siyavula STEM Yes a sponsorship model. offline) formats Commons African to high education.com/ license school Provides video lectures that are focused on the Pakistani curriculum and delivered in simple Urdu so Languages that the students can easily Arts Primarily From understand them. Their videos Both (online & STEM Multiple Creative Urdu kindergarten Sabaq No https://sabaq.pk/ cover all topics in Islamabad, the offline) Social formats Commons English to high Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Studies and license school and Balochistan education boards. Humanities All their video lectures are also available on DVDs. An interactive visual teaching resource that provides animated videos to explain learning material. Both (online & Some Rights https://www.designm Designmate STEM Video Si English K-12 offline) Reserved ate.com/ 8 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team An online portal for submission of Languages content for evaluation, curation Arts and approval. The content is Kenya Education Both (online & STEM Multiple Some Rights intended for basic education (ECDE, Si English All https://kec.ac.ke/ Cloud offline) Social formats Reserved Primary, Secondary) and tertiary Studies and (Teacher Education and Technical Humanities and vocational education). 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Resources https://www.mined.g STEM Multiple Some Rights Education organized by categories that allow Online No Spanish K-12 ob.sv/emergenciacovi Social formats Reserved Continuity you to work on creating d19/ Studies and presentations, forms, images, Humanities maps, websites; video and sound editing and more. Free science and math simulations for teaching STEM topics, including Primarily physics, chemistry, biology, and Multiple Creative https://phet.colorado PhET Offline STEM Yes Multilingual K-12 free interactive math and science formats Commons .edu/ simulations. license 9 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team The OERu makes higher education Languages accessible to everyone. The Arts Primarily platform offers university-level STEM Multiple Creative Higher OERu courses online for free and submit Online Yes English https://oeru.org/ Social formats Commons Education assessments. Coordinated by the Studies and license OER Foundation offering free online Humanities courses for students worldwide. Languages Arts Primarily The Digital Library serves as a Global Digital STEM Multiple Creative https://www.digitalli catering platform for teaching and Offline No Multilingual K-12 Library Social formats Commons brary.io/ learning resources globally. Studies and license Humanities The courses provided by ProFuturo Languages empower the teachers' Arts development of innovation and ICT STEM Multiple Some Rights Higher https://solution.profu ProFuturo Online Yes Multilingual knowledge, their teaching and Social formats Reserved Education turo.education/ pedagogical skills, and their digital Studies and capabilities. 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Studies and Humanities 11 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Languages Arts Primarily Guiaea Educa A digital library and network. One STEM Multiple Creative https://guiaea.educa Digital can explore open education Offline Social formats No Commons Portuguese All levels digital.org.br/conteud resources and join the network of Studies and license o-online/ educators dedicated to curriculum. Humanities Languages Arts School closure learning guide, a STEM Multiple Some Rights English national nonprofit empowering https://www.greatsc GreatSchools Offline Social formats No Reserved Spanish K-12 parent to unlock educational hools.org/ Studies and opportunities for their children. 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It includes also gamified material. 12 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Educational program that supports educators in the development of Languages their students' writing and literacy. Arts Our methodology is built cyclically Some Rights Letrus STEM Multiple https://www.letrus.c from results and detailed analysis, Online No Reserved Portuguese K-12 Social formats om.br/ enhancing the performance of Studies and teachers and enabling the role of Humanities students in the development of writing. Free online STEM courses, in https://www.stemby different formats for different me.com/?utm_sourc levels. STEMbyME it's a Fundación All Rights STEMbyME Multiple e=comunicacion&utm Telefonica program, and the Online STEM No Reserved Spanish All levels formats _medium=boletines& content of the courses is provided utm_campaign=sema by different educational na03232020 institutions. English Arabic Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish iTunes U offere lectures and Languages Dutch learning materials from K-12 Arts Finnish https://www.apple.c education to Higher Education, STEM Multiple All Rights French om/education/apple- ITunes U Offline Yes All levels where state or national education Social formats Reserved German distinguished- departments provide content for Studies and Greek educator/ both students and educators. Humanities Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Malay 13 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Slovak Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese A digital library for children below Multiple Freemium https://www.getepic. Epic 12 years (35,000 books, learning Offline Literacy Yes English K-12 formats version com/ videos, quizzes & more). Languages A free, open-source application that Arts lets you download Wikipedia to STEM Multiple English Xowa Offline No Free All levels xowa.org your computer and all of it access Social formats German entirely offline. Studies and Humanities Languages An e-Learning app by NCERT for Arts classes 1 to 12 in multiple English STEM Multiple http://epathshala.nic. ePathshala languages. The app houses books, Offline Yes Free Hindi K-12 Social formats in/ videos, audio, etc. aimed at Urdu Studies and students, educators and parents. Humanities Toolkit for international education https://www.globalreadin English gnetwork.net/resources/ stakeholders universal design for The Global Languages Multiple Spanish universal-design-learning- learning to help all children read: Offline Yes Free K-12 Reading Network Literacy formats French help-all-children-read- promoting literacy for learners with promoting-literacy- Arabic disabilities. learners-disabilities 14 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team A multilingual digital repository to thousands of richly illustrated, open-licensed children's stories. https://storyweaver.o Story Multiple Offline Languages Yes Free Arabic K-12 rg.in/stories/10485- Weaver formats Literacy astatee-an-atasalaq Arabic English French Japanese A project of the ICDL Foundation in Malay collaboration with the US’s Portuguese http://www.childrens University of Maryland's Human- Languages Multiple Spanish library.org/icdl/Simpl Children Library Offline Yes Free K-12 Computer Interaction Lab which Literacy formats Pashto eSearchCategory?lan offers open access to children Farsi gid=309 books. Polish Portuguese Mongolian Russian Thai English Hindi Bangla This app from India, which is aimed Urdu at elementary school-aged Telugu https://bolo.withgoo students, leverages technology like Languages Multiple Marathi Bolo Offline Yes Free K-12 gle.com/intl/en/#how Google’s speech recognition and Literacy formats Tamil -bolo-works text-to-speech to help kids learn to Spanish read. Portuguese 15 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Algonkian Anishinaabem owin Arabic Cree English Farsi French German Hindi Inuktitut Languages Italian Arts Education tools and content to Khmer STEM Multiple Rumie enable lifelong learning for Offline Yes Free Maasai All levels https://rumie.org/ Social formats underserved communities. Mandarin Studies and Michif Humanities s Mohawk Nepali Oji-Cree Pashto Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swahili Turkish Other A tablet-based tool to provide academic support and extra lessons Languages for up to 40 students per box, for Arts children aged 5 to 18 years (Grade STEM Multiple https://schoolinabox. School in a Box Offline No Low Cost English All levels 1 to Matric in South Africa), in Social formats co.za/ English, math, science and Studies and computer coding. Humanities 16 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Online education platform that offers content from all high school Languages disciplines. The free version gives Arts access to the catalog with more STEM Multiple Freemium https://www.stoodi.c Stoodi Online No Portuguese Secondary than 5,000 video lessons from all Social formats version om.br/ disciplines and to the exercise bank Studies and with more than 30,000 questions Humanities with step by step guides on video. SplashLearn is a game-based learning program, curriculum- aligned, that adapts to each child’s skill level and helps them master Pre- appropriate skills for Math and Primarily Languages kindergarten Reading at their own pace. It covers Multiple Creative English https://www.splashle SplashLearn Offline STEM Yes through PreK through Grade 5 for math and formats Commons Spanish arn.com/) Grade 5 reading, and comes with a separate license parent and a teacher dashboard which allows them to track children’s progress and helps them identify areas they need to focus on Highlighted resources: Two repositories highlighted here are OER Commons and Global Digital Library. OER Commons is a large (meta) repository, with resources relevant from K-12 to adult education, and all contents are available under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License. The Global Digital Library offers high quality mother tongue learning resources worldwide that are openly licensed and freely downloadable. 17 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team National Learning Platforms Selection of national public portal providing digital resources and guidance to support learning, updated information, examples of good practices on distance education and more. Can content be downloaded? Country Language Name Description Platform Link (to be used offline) Argentina's multimedia platform with videos, digital books, games, didactic Web, https://www.edu Argentina Spanish Seguimos Educando sequences, teaching guidelines, educational TV, educational radio, printed Yes TV, c.ar/ guides, etc. Radio The states of Amazonas and Pará have launched a strategy relying heavily on https://www.yout Aula Em Casa the use of educational television (the Brazilian Amazon region has a long Web, ube.com/channel Brazil Portuguese Yes Amazonas tradition of this, dating back to the 1970s). Their content is also available in TV /UCvn5vfHpe05D- their YouTube channel, and is complemented with their online platform. _2wQioYbBw China Education Television CETV4 "Same Class" began its live broadcast on Chinese February 10 and has invited nearly 100 ‘famous’ schoolteachers to cover the http://www.centv China Chinese Network Education curriculum content of elementary school, junior and senior high school. It is Yes TV .cn/cetv4/index.h Television (CETV4) committed to providing high-quality curriculum content to students tml throughout the country during the epidemic. https://contenido The portal offers educational content in most subject areas allowing learners Web, Colombia Spanish Aprender Digital Yes s.colombiaaprend to use this to complement their learning and training processes. TV e.edu.co/ The portal offers educational content in most subject areas allowing learners https://www.enti Colombia Spanish En TIC confío No Web to use this to complement their learning and training processes. cconfio.gov.co/ 18 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team http://recursos.m Aprendo en Casa is a Costa Rican platform used to disseminate educational Web, Costa Rica Spanish Aprendo en Casa (CR) Yes ep.go.cr/2020/ap resources during COVID-19. TV rendoencasa/ The government created the "school for life" website, with different type of http://skolazazivo Croatia Croatian Skolazazivot resources, such as e-learning guides, video lessons, schedules, classroom No Web t.hr/ teaching resources and examples from different schools. https://edu.ceska televize.cz/?_ga= Česká Televize is a public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic. It It 2.233120476.370 Czech also delivers educational television broadcasts for students. Its website Web, Czech Česká televize Yes 240354.15859207 Republic shares the scheduling as well as a very well-organized e-learning resources TV 50- for students and teachers on its website. 961636035.15856 40212 The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MEYS) launched the website whose name translates to ‘Distance Education’. and supports schools and Czech https://nadalku. Czech NaDálku - MŠMT teachers with the same. This website contains links to online educational No Web, Republic msmt.cz/cs tools, updated information, examples of good practices regarding distance education. This is the common communication platform for staff, parents and students https://www.aula Denmark Danish Aula No Web at the country's primary schools and in day- care facilities. .dk/portal/#/login This website provides a guide to different solutions that Denmark's EdTech http://edtechdon Denmark Danish Edtech Donor suppliers have made available to respond to COVID-19, with resources to No Web or.dk/ support teaching, learning and training. Through an adaptive test on its platform, the academic areas that the Inteligencia Dominican student needs to reinforce can be identified and creates the student’s Spanish Quisqueya: No Web http://iq.edu.do/ Republic individualized Learning Path accordingly. It also provides free access to IQ.EDU.DO virtual space where students can prepare for national tests. 19 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Educational content and learning guidance developed by the Ministry of http://www.educ Ecuador Spanish Educa No Web Ecuador. a.ec/ This platform provided by the Ministry of Education and Technical Education https://stream.m (MOETE - Egypt) offers direct communication between experienced teachers oe.gov.eg/ Egypt Arabic Edu Stream channel No Web and students. It facilitates lectures and meetings that are scheduled and announced. It offers an alternative form of interaction. Repository of selected resources that includes free, online and downloadable https://www.min Materials Education tools for middle school students. Resources organized by categories that El Salvador Spanish No Web ed.gob.sv/emerge Continuity allow students to work on creating presentations, forms, images, maps, nciacovid19/ websites, videos, sound editing, etc. https://www.edu cation.gouv.fr/ma The online portal whose name translates to ‘My class at home’ provides -classe-la-maison- France French Ma classe à la maison access to educational content and learning opportunities for French No Web mise-en-oeuvre- students. de-la-continuite- pedagogique- 289680 NROER is an initiative of the Department of School Education and Literacy housed within the Ministry of Human Resource Development (which includes National Repository Hindi education). The portal provides a host of resources for students and teachers https://nroer.gov. India of Open Educational No Web English in multiple languages including books, interactive modules and videos in/ Resources (NROER) including a host of STEM based games. Content is mapped to the curriculum for classes 1 – 12 including aligned resources for teachers. DIKSHA contains e-Learning content for students, teachers and parents aligned to the curriculum, including video lessons, worksheets, textbooks and Hindi assessments. Under the guidance of its national board of education (CBSE) https://diksha.go India DIKSHA Yes Web English among others, the content has been created by more than 250 teachers who v.in/ teach in multiple languages. QR codes in textbooks encourage students to go beyond the book. The app is available to use offline. 20 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Swayam hosts 1900 complete courses including teaching videos, weekly assignments, exams and credit transfers as well. This is aimed at school (class Hindi https://swayam.g India 9 to 12) and higher education level (undergraduate and postgraduate). Yes Web English Swayam ov.in/ Subjects are aligned to the curriculum and include engineering, humanities, social sciences, law and management courses including robotics. TV Edukasi (Education TV, formerly TVE) is an Indonesian television station TV Edukasi owned by its Ministry of Education and Culture and started in 2004. Currently https://tve.kemdi Indonesian Web, Indonesia (Teleisi Pendidikan TV Edukasi has two channels: channel 1 for students and channel 2 for Yes kbud.go.id English TV Indonesia) teachers. It is managed by Pustekkom, a semiautonomous body under the direction of the Ministry of Education. https://www.istru A work-in-progress website created by its Ministry of Education and Ministry zione.it/coronavir Italy Italian Didattica a distanza of University and Research to support schools that wish to activate forms of No Web us/didattica-a- distance learning during the closure period. distanza.html This educational portal includes resources for grades 1-12 with the focus on Web, https://darsak.go Jordan Arabic Darsak Yes core subjects (Math, English, Science, Arabic). TV, v.jo Edu TV is an initiative of the Ministry of Education (MoE) of Kenya in collaboration with Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) and Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) to provide educational learning via https://kicd.ac.ke Web, Kiswahili free to air TV channels. KICD has been using Edu TV since 2016 to provide /broadcast- Kenya Edu TV - TV, English supplementary education aligned to the school curriculum. Lessons will be schedule/tv-time- Radio broadcast on the KICD owned channel called “Edu Channel TV”. Schedules table-2020/ will be available on the KICD website. These broadcast TV lessons are also available on its YouTube channel called Edu TV Kenya. EBS is the Korean public broadcasting organization that aims to inform, Korea Educational educate, engage, and enlighten people. Complementing public education in Web, Korean https://www.ebs. Korea Broadcasting System Korea, EBS is dedicated to ensuring accessibility and openness in education - TV, English co.kr/main (EBS) for all. It supports educational television program broadcasting across the Radio country. EduwebTV (previously called TV Pendidikan) is the online learning platform Malay EduwebTV Web, http://eduwebtv. Malaysia of its Ministry of Education. It also hosts on-demand content for students Yes English (TV Pendidikan) TV moe.edu.my/ across Pre-Kindergarten to secondary school as well as digital textbooks. 21 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team TV Okey is a Malaysian free-to-air television channel operated by the public Web, https://okey.rtm. Malaysia Malay TV Okey broadcaster, Radio Televisyen Malaysia. It is also being used to air education Yes TV gov.my/ programs for students during the COVID-19 school closures. This offers offline as well as online radio (radio on demand) by the Government of Mexico for adults and children alike. It is the first educational Web, https://radioeduc Mexico Spanish Radio Educación and cultural radio station in Mexico. Radio Educación is a decentralized body Yes Radio acion.edu.mx/ within the Ministry of Culture, whose substantive work consists of promoting and disseminating educational, cultural and artistic expressions. https://telesecun This is the Mexican government’s initiative that integrates different learning Web, daria.sep.gob.mx/ Mexico Spanish Telesecundaria strategies focused on the use of educational television for secondary school Yes TV, students. It began in 1968 aimed at out-of-school students. Radio https://librosdete xto.sep.gob.mx/ Web, This a national one-stop-platform that integrates a large volume of digital TV, http://www.apre Mexico Spanish @AprendeMX learning materials, access to resources via television, radio and a variety of Yes Radio nde.edu.mx/ digital contents. It provides guidance to students, educators, and parents. This provides public education television organized by the Ministry of Web, http://econtent.e Mongolia Mongolian ESIS Edu Education, Culture, Science and Sports of Mongolia. The website also hosts e- Yes TV du.mn/ content for students for PreK – 12 as well as textbooks. 22 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Content repository (in Arabic and French), for primary – secondary – and – baccalaureate: The site is in Arabic. The first menu separates the content by French https://soutiensc Morocco TelmidTICE level (primary-secondary-baccalaureate). For all the levels, the content No Web Arabic o.men.gov.ma/ consists in videos in Arabic and French. There is a filter per subject (and the videos are titled with the topic). National television channel 4 named Athaqafia broadcasts educational Arabic lessons in Morocco. The Athaqafia channel is set to broadcast lessons daily Web, http://www.snrtli Morocco French Athaqafia TV according to the regular school curriculum. The lessons are also available on Yes TV ve.ma/athaqafia English the digital terrestrial network TNT, Nilesat satellite, SNRT Live website and via a mobile application. Arabic Broadcasting and Television National Company (SNRT) has dedicated its Web, https://arryadia.s Morocco French Arryadia TV sports channel named Arriyadia TV to also broadcast university lectures for Yes TV nrt.ma/ English students. The government has adapted this national education web platform to the North http://eduino.gov Macedonian Eduino (Едуино) needs of the education system and created an e-classroom for video lessons - Web Macedonia .mk/ for Grades 1-9. https://aprendoe Students will have access to this on-demand educational resource by radio, Web, Peru Spanish Aprendo en Casa Yes ncasa.pe/#/ TV, as well as online. TV http://www.peru This is a virtual space that offers various audiovisual services and has quality Web, educa.pe/sistema Peru Spanish PeruEducaTV resources for students of all levels of Regular Basic Education in order to No TV digital/perueduca improve their quality of learning with the support of the teacher or tutor. -tv 23 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team The portal provides educational materials for self-study. Every week, new Web, https://cifra.scho Russia Russian CIFRA lessons will appear aligned with the textbook contents. Educational materials Yes TV ol/ are organized in 6 subjects for students from grades 1 to 11. iEN This portal includes resources for students at different grades, teachers and https://ien.edu.sa Saudi Arabia Arabic National Education - Web parents. /Home/dashbord Portal A portal with multiformat tools and access to different education websites in https://vschool.sa Saudi Arabia Arabic Virtual School - Web Saudi Arabia. / Ministry of Education has organized Ain channel to be the education channel Arabic Web, http://www.ientv Saudi Arabia Ain channel for all grades. Students can gain access to their classes through 20 Ein No English TV .edu.sa/ channels on TV and Ain’s YouTube channel. https://www.moj Serbia Serbian Moja škola The national online learning platform from Serbia. - Web askola.gov.rs/ This is a Spanish platform that offers digital learning resources for children between 3 to 10 years of age. This has been developed in coordination with Web, https://www.rtve Spain Spanish EduClan Yes the Spanish Ministry of Education and major players from the publishing TV .es/educlan/ industry. This content is also available on TV via ‘Apredemos En Casa’. This is an Open Educational Resources Network organized by the National http://procomun. Spain Spanish Procomun Yes Web Institute of Educational Technologies for Teacher Training in Spain (INTEF). educalab.es/es 24 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team The portal aims to channel quality educational resources, tools and https://aprendoe Aprendo en Casa applications available to teachers, families and the students themselves. In Spain Spanish Yes Web ncasa.educacion. (INTEF) the website interested actors can find links to materials prepared and es/ launched by the autonomous communities, private entities and other agents. In the Regional Basque TV channel (EITB3), students (ages 6 to 10) can watch, https://www.eit from Monday to Friday, the scheduled educational content organized by Spanish Bitartean, etxetik Web, b.eus/eu/hiru3/ Spain subject and age. Students have also the opportunity to access to these videos Yes Basque ikasten TV bitartean- using the app, the YouTube channel and the website. The videos combine animations with the presence of a teacher broadcasting the lesson. etxetik-ikasten/ EBA, the digital education platform of the Ministry of National Education, EBA TV Course https://www.eba. Turkey Turkish contains thousands of contents in different formats to support student - Web Broadcast gov.tr/ learning. https://www.unia “All-Ukrainian School Online” - lessons in 11 subjects for students in grades Web, Ukraine Russian UNIAN Yes n.net/uroki- 5–11 classes. Classes appear on the schedule plate on a daily base. TV onlayn Repository of selected resources that includes free, online and downloadable Valijas de tools for middle school students. Resources organized by categories that https://valijas.cei Uruguay Spanish Herramientas de Yes Web allow students to work on creating presentations, forms, images, maps, bal.edu.uy/ Ceibal websites, videos, sound editing, etc. 25 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team This provides a unified electronic portal for all schools in Palestine to West Bank communicate between the ministry, the school, the teacher, the student, https://www.esch Arabic e-School portal Yes Web and Gaza and parents in support of the e-learning initiative. It contains resources ool.edu.ps/ aligned to Grade 1 – 12. The Rawafed educational portal is set up to achieve the goals of the Ministry http://rawafed.ed West Bank Arabic Rawafed of Education and Higher Education, and to support quality teaching and - Web u.ps/portal/elear and Gaza learning. ning/ Highlighted resources: Two national platforms worth additionally highlighting are Diksha (India) and Educlan (Spain). In both cases, resources are classified by age or grade. The navigation is user friendly and encourages exploration. While Diksha website (India) allows the platform to be downloaded as an application onto a mobile phone, the EduClan website (Spain) offer a wealth of educational videos, games and other materials. Both are good examples of useful resources to support remote learning. In addition, many more national platforms and tools categorized by country can be found in this UNESCO compilation: https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse/nationalresponses. 26 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Other Platforms and Software I. Assessment Connectivity Main Conditions of Target Name Description Interaction Platform Language Link Type functionality Use Group Provides a downloadable English application for offline surveys that Both Spanish Freemium Students https://www.qualtric Qualtrics allow for survey and assessment Offline Asynchronous Assessment (desktop French version Educators s.com/education/ administration on a mobile device and mobile) Portuguese without an internet connection Italian Permits teachers to create enhanced computer-based assessments. Teachers can use items from the app item bank for Both Freemium Students https://edulastic.co Edulastic their online assessments. It Online Synchronous Assessment (desktop English version Educators m/ produces automatic reports. It can and mobile) be linked to Microsoft and other platforms. It has a free version for teachers and students. Helps with Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Assessments, and interviews with students, teachers, and principals. Open English, source data collection software French, optimized for use on mobile Both Tangerine Freemium Russian, Students http://www.tangerin devices and in low-resource Offline Asynchronous Assessment (desktop Central version Arabic Educators ecentral.org contexts. Facilitates learner and mobile) (Jordanian) assessments and interviews; Khmer allows for multimedia content integration. Online editor with downloadable app for offline data collection and content sharing. 27 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Provides a computer-based and online adaptive learning tool for Desktop - Freemium Students http://www.smartze Smartzed Online Asynchronous Assessment English mathematics, science, and Browser version Educators d.net/ reading. Highlighted resources: Qualtrics and Tangerine Central are highlighted since they offer freemium versions available in several languages. In addition, both assessment tools include functionalities to work in context of limited internet connectivity. 28 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team II. File manager Connectivity Main Conditions Target Name Description Interaction Platform Language Link Type functionality of Use Group Bahasa Indonesia Dansk Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Nederland Polski Both Português An app designed for note taking, organizing, (desktop Freemium Students https://everno Evernote Offline Asynchronous File manager Suomi task management, and archiving. and version Educators te.com/ Svenska mobile) Tiếng Việt Türkçe Русский ‫العربية‬ ภาษาไทย 한국어 中文（简体） 中文（繁體） 日本語 Students use built-in annotation tools to capture what they know in Seesaw’s digital Both portfolio. Has student driven digital (desktop Freemium Students https://web.se Seesaw portfolios and simple parent communication. Online Synchronous File manager English and version Educators esaw.me/ Can be used as a primary means for students mobile) to create content, interact with teachers, and interact with classmates. 29 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team III. Learning Management Systems Connectivity Main Conditions Target Name Description Interaction Platform Language Link Type functionality of Use Group Arabic Armenian Cantonese Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Haitian Hebrew Canvas Network provides a place and Learning Hungarian platform where teachers, students, and Both Management Both Icelandic https://ww Canvas & Canvas institutions worldwide can connect and Asynchronous System; (desktop Freemium Students Offline Italian w.canvas.ne Network chart their own course for personal and and version Educators Japanese t/ growth, professional development, and Synchronous mobile) Korean academic inquiry. Mandarin Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Welsh 30 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Freemium Students Edpuzzle Online Desktop - https://edpu Track students' progress with hassle-free Asynchronous Video Creator version English Educators Browser zzle.com/ analytic. Arabic Armenian Cantonese Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Haitian Hebrew Moodle is an open source platform used Hungarian Both for blended learning, distance education, Learning Icelandic (desktop Students https://moo Moodle flipped classroom and other e-learning Offline Asynchronous Management Free Italian and Educators dle.org/ projects in schools, universities, System Japanese mobile) workplaces and other sectors. Korean Mandarin Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Welsh 31 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team English, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chewa, Learning Farsi, Kolibri makes high quality education Management French, technology available in low-resource System; Gujarati, https://learn Kolibri (Learning Smartphon Freemium Students communities such as rural schools, refugee Offline Asynchronous Hindi, ingequality.o Equality) e app version Educators camps, orphanages, non-formal school Korean, rg/kolibri/ systems, and prison systems. Content Marathi, Repository Portuguese Spanish, Swahili, Telugu, Urdu, Vietnamese Yoruba English It is a learning management system, which Learning Spanish Desire2Learn is a cloud-based software used by schools, Desktop - Freemium https://ww Offline Asynchronous Management German Students (D2L) higher education, and businesses for Browser version w.d2l.com/ System Portuguese online and blended classroom learning. English Sakai Learning Sakai is a robust open-source learning Learning Spanish https://ww Management management system created by higher ed. Desktop – Freemium Online Synchronous Management German Students w.d2l.com/ System for higher ed. Browser version System Portuguese English, Schoology is a freemium web based LMS Both Both French, that hosts eLearning content such as Learning https://ww Asynchronous (desktop Freemium Japanese, Students Schoology courses, training, and programs. It allows Offline Management w.schoology and and version Malay, Educators instructors to build reports on learners’ System .com/ Synchronous mobile) Portuguese performance based on course completion. Spanish 32 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Planet Learning is designed to be available to everyone, everywhere, all the time. It is portable, affordable, scalable and Learning Open Learning sustainable. It is hardware agnostic; any https://ww Offline Asynchronous Management Desktop Free English Students Exchange device that can open a browser can use it. w.ole.org/ System It functions off, as well as on, the Internet. The Raspberry Pi, costing US$35 is often used as the server. Arabic Chinese Czech Danish Dutch Filipino Finnish French Free tool (as long as you have a free Gmail German account) developed by Google to support Hebrew online classroom experience for teachers Hindi and students. It permits online Both Hungarian communication to support distance Learning https://class (desktop Indonesian Students Google classroom education. Google Classroom Includes Online Synchronous Management Free room.google and Italian Educators tools for online assessment development, System .com/ mobile) Japanese administration, scoring, and feedback. Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese 33 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Gaming technology to deliver quality education to children, including those in conflict contexts. Can't Wait to Learn is Both https://ww fast, effective and low-cost - and utilizes Learning Can’t wait to (desktop Arabic w.warchildh custom gaming technology to deliver Offline Asynchronous Management Free Students Learn and English olland.org/p quality education. The evidence-based System mobile) rojects/cwtl/ program was developed by War Child and partners through years of testing and research. A platform from India that can be used Learning entirely offline. Can be used for content Management Both https://ww creation and delivery, record keeping, System; (desktop English Students Ustad Mobile Offline Asynchronous Free w.ustadmob attendance tracking etc. Can be used on and Arabic Educators ile.com/lms/ multiple platforms and is entirely open Content mobile) source. Repository Sunbird is an open source, configurable, extendable, modular learning infrastructure architected for scale and designed to support multiple teaching and Both learning solutions supporting multiple Learning (desktop https://ww languages particularly for millions of English Students Sunbird Offline Asynchronous Management and Free w.sunbird.or learners in the K-12 space. It could serve Hindi Educators System mobile) g/ the needs of under resourced environments and contexts. It is the open source infrastructure developed by EkStep Foundation in India and is licensed under MIT licence. Highlighted resources: The two Learning Management Systems (LMS) highlighted here are Moodle and Kolibri (from Learning Equality). Both platforms are broadly used within the education landscape and both LMS can be used in low resources environment. They include features that facilitate the access to contents in contexts with very limited connectivity. 34 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team IV. Training Connectivity Main Conditions Target Name Description Interaction Platform Language Link Type functionality of Use Group A program that develops a love of We love reading in children by training adults All Rights English https://welov Offline Asynchronous Training Web based Adults reading to read aloud to them in a public Reserved Arabic ereading.org/ space on a routine basis. Learner-centered, skills-based learning Both (desktop Freemium https://www. Cell-Ed Offline Synchronous Training English Students platform. and mobile) version cell-ed.com/ 35 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team V. Video conference system Connectivity Main Conditions Target Name Description Interaction Platform Language Link Type functionality of Use Group English Google Hangouts is a unified communications Mandarin service that enables text, voice, or video Both Hindi Video https://han Google chats, either one-on-one or in a group. (desktop Spanish Students Online Synchronous conference Free gouts.googl Hangouts Hangouts is built into Gmail, YouTube, and and French Educators system e.com/ Google Voice, plus there's Hangouts apps for mobile) Arabic iOS, Android, and the web. Russian Portuguese Open source web conferencing system. Video https://bigb BigBlueButton supports real-time sharing of Desktop - Freemium Students BigBlueButton Online Synchronous conference English luebutton.o audio, video, slides (with whiteboard Browser version Educators system rg/ controls), cha Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that Online Synchronous Video Both Freemium English Students https://jitsi. allows users to build and deploy secure conference (desktop version org/ Jitsi videoconferencing solutions. system and mobile) English Arabic Bahasa Indonesia AWS is offering free use of all Amazon Chime Both Dutch Pro features for online meetings and video https://aws Video (desktop Freemium Español Students conferencing from March 4, 2020 to June 30, Online .amazon.co Amazon Chime Synchronous conference and version French Educators 2020 for all customers that start using m/chime system mobile) Italiano Amazon Chime for the first time during this Portuguese period from their AWS account. Tiếng Việt Türkçe Ρусский ไทย 36 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team 日本語 한국어 中文 (简体) 中文 (繁體) Highlighted resources: The two video conference systems highlighted here are Google Hangouts and Jitsi. Google Hangouts works in different environments, is available in several language (is free if you have an account with the company) and can be used for up to 10 people for free with no time limit while education institutions can use it for free for up to 250 people during the COVID-19 school closures. Jitsi is free open-source video conferencing for web. Both solutions work on browser and mobile. 37 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Television and Radio *Please note that some of the radio and or TV platforms listed here were earlier included in the section of national platforms (e.g. national public service broadcaster). Those platforms in red were also included in the category of National Platforms Mobile Name Country Description Grades Format Language Link App English Spanish Portuguese German Dutch French Arabic Japanese Chinese Sesame Street is an educational children's television series that combines Hindi https://www.sesa live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Bangla meworkshop.org/ Sesame Workshop. The program is known for its engaging child friendly 150 TV, Radio, Dari, Pashto Sesame Street programs communicated using Muppets characters, and includes short Ages 3 - 5 Yes countries Online (Afghanistan) https://www.sesa films, with humor and cultural references relevant to the country. The Afrikaans, mestreet.org/carin series first premiered in 1969. Now, contextual versions of Sesame Street English, Zulu, g are developed land aired locally in countries across the world. Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana and Venda (South Africa) 38 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Kiswahili English Ubongo leverages the power of entertainment, the reach of mass media, 33 African PreK-9 TV, Radio, Kinyarwanda https://www.ubon Ubongo and the connectivity of mobile devices, to deliver effective, localized Yes countries Ages 3 - 14 Online Thai go.org/shows/ learning to African families at low cost and at scale. French Hausa This is the state initiative of the State of Amazonas e Pará to support https://www.youtu remote learning through TV (the Brazilian Amazon region has a long Aula Em Casa be.com/channel/U Brazil tradition of this, going back to the 1970s). The content is also available on 6-12 TV, Online No Portuguese Amazonas Cvn5vfHpe05D- its YouTube channel, and complemented with its online platform hosted _2wQioYbBw on the ministry of education website. China Education Television’s CETV4 "Same Class" began its live broadcast Chinese Network on February 10, 2020 and has invited nearly 100 ‘famous’ schoolteachers http://www.centv. TV, cn/cetv4/index.ht Education China to teach the curriculum content across all levels of school education. It has PreK-12 - Chinese Online Television (CETV4) committed to provide high-quality curriculum content to students ml throughout the country during the pandemic. Česká Televize is a public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic. It Czech also delivers educational television broadcasts for students. Its website https://edu.ceskate Česká Televize K-12 TV, Online Yes Czech Republic shares the scheduling as well as a very well-organized e-learning resources levize.cz/ for students and teachers on its website. 39 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has launched this group to run 32 educational TV channels on 24x7 basis. CIET, NCERT 6 - 12 disseminates curriculum based educational TV programs for students and Higher English https://swayampra Swayam Prabha India TV, Online Yes teachers. These channels are available for viewing across the country Education Urdu bha.gov.in/ using DD free dish set top boxes and antennas. The channel schedule and Teachers other details are available on its website. TV Edukasi (Education TV, formerly TVE) is an Indonesian television station TV Edukasi owned by Ministry of Education and Culture (MoEC). and began in 2004. https://tve.kemdik K-12 TV, Radio, Indonesian bud.go.id (Teleisi Pendidikan Indonesia Currently TV Edukasi has two channels: channel 1 for students and Yes Teachers Online English Indonesia) channel 2 for teachers. It is managed by Pustekkom, a semi-autonomous body under the direction of its MOEC. Edu TV is an initiative of the Ministry of Education (MoE) of Kenya in collaboration with Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) and Kenya Broadcating Corporation (KBC) to provide educational learning via https://kicd.ac.ke/ free to air TV channels. KICD has been using Edu TV since 2016 to provide TV, Radio, Kiswahili broadcast- EduTV Kenya 1-8 No supplementary education aligned to the school curriculum. Lessons will be Online English schedule/tv-time- broadcast on the KICD owned channel called “Edu Channel TV”. Schedules table-2020/ will be available on the KICD website. These broadcast TV lessons are also available on its YouTube channel called Edu TV Kenya. EBS is the Korean public broadcasting organization that aims to inform, Korea Educational educate, engage, and enlighten people. Complementing public education TV, Radio, Korean https://www.ebs.c Broadcasting Korea in Korea, EBS is dedicated to ensuring accessibility and openness in K-12 Yes Online English o.kr/main System (EBS) education for all. It supports educational television program broadcasting across the country. Cloud-based online television (also on open and cable television). TV, Online https://www.tavakl Tavaklase Latvia Multimedia content and lessons of 20 min. organized by subject and 1-12 No Latvian ase.lv/ grade. 40 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team EduwebTV K-12 Malay http://eduwebtv.m Malaysia This is the national education television organized by Ministry of TV, Online - (TV Pendidikan) Teachers English oe.edu.my/ Education of Malaysia. TV Okey is a Malaysian free-to-air television channel operated by the https://okey.rtm.g TV Okey Malaysia 1-12 TV, Online Yes Malay public broadcaster, Radio Televisyen Malaysia. It is also being used to air ov.my/ education programs for students during the COVID-19 school closures. This is the Mexican government’s initiative that integrates different learning strategies focused on the use of educational television for https://telesecund Telesecundaria Mexico 6-12 TV, Online No Spanish secondary school students. It began in 1968 aimed at out-of-school aria.sep.gob.mx/ students. This is the public education television platform by the Ministry of http://econtent.ed ESIS Edu Mongolia K-12 TV, Online Yes Mongolian Education, Culture, Science and Sports of Mongolia. u.mn/ National television channel 4 named Athaqafia broadcasts educational French lessons in Morocco. The Athaqafia channel is set to broadcast lessons PreK-9 Hausa TV, Radio, http://www.snrtliv Athaqafia TV Morocco daily according to the regular school curriculum. The lessons are also Ages 3 - 14 Yes French Online e.ma/athaqafia available on the digital terrestrial network TNT, Nilesat satellite, SNRT Live - Arabic website and via a mobile application. English 41 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team Broadcasting and Television National Company (SNRT) has dedicated its French Higher TV, Radio, https://arryadia.snr Arryadia TV Morocco sports channel named Arriyadia TV to also broadcast university lectures Yes Arabic Education Online t.ma/ for students. English Platform that provides daily educational videos. Contents are classified by English https://taleemghar Taleem Ghar Pakistan K - 12 TV, Online yes grades and subjects and are also downloadable (includes also an App) Urdu .punjab.gov.pk/ The portal provides educational materials for self-study. Every week, new https://cifra.school CIFRA Russia lessons will appear aligned with the textbook contents. Educational 1-11 TV, Online - Russian / materials are organized in 6 subjects for students from grades 1 to 11. Ministry of Education has organized Ain channel to be the education Saudi Arabic http://www.ientv.e Ain channel channel for all grades. Students can gain access to their classes through 20 K - 12 TV, Online Yes Arabia English du.sa/ Ein channels on TV and Ain’s YouTube channel. This is a Spanish platform that offers digital learning resources for children between 3 to 10 years of age. This has been developed in coordination PreK - 5 https://www.rtve.e EduClan Spain with the Spanish Ministry of Education and major players from the Ages 3 - 10 TV, Online Yes Spanish s/educlan/ publishing industry. This content is also available on TV via ‘Apredemos En years Casa’. In the Regional Basque TV channel (EITB3), students (ages 6 to 10) can watch, from Monday to Friday, the scheduled educational content https://www.eitb.e Bitartean, etxetik organized by subject and age. Students have also the opportunity to Spanish Spain Ages 6-10 TV, Online Yes us/eu/hiru3/bitarte ikasten access to these videos using the app, the YouTube channel and the Basque an-etxetik-ikasten/ website. The videos combine animations with the presence of a teacher broadcasting the lesson. 42 This list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank’s Edtech Team (April 10th 2020) www.worldbank.org/en/topic/edutech/brief/edtech-covid-19 Remote learning, distance education and online learning during the COVID19 pandemic: A Resource List Prepared by the World Bank’s Edtech Team “All-Ukrainian School Online” - lessons in 11 subjects for students in https://www.unian UNIAN Ukraine 5-11 TV, Online - Russian grades 5–11 classes. Classes appear on the schedule plate on a daily base. .net/uroki-onlayn Fairfax Network in Virginia creates free programming for educators to use https://www.fcps.e in the classroom. The programs are also offered free to public television du/news-features- United stations and cable systems that serve school systems across the US. and-events/fairfax- FAIRFAX COUNTY K-12 TV, Online No English States Program content covers a variety of topics across curriculum areas and network/fairfax- grade levels, as well as exemplary instructional strategies to assist network- teachers with their practice. programming KQED is broadcasting a California state standards-aligned educational television programming. This was developed to help schools and districts https://www.kqed. United KQED bridge the digital divide and provide equitable access to learning for all PreK-12 TV, Online - English org/education/ath Stated students at home, regardless of access to internet or computers. This runs omelearning on all weekdays. South Carolina ETV (SCETV) is the state's public educational broadcasting United network. 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