Comparative and International Higher Education Policy Specialist; Focus on Central Asia
While many countries are still pondering what to do with students come the new school year in September 2020, Kazakhstan - currently under a state imposed quarantine for a second time - has announced its back-to-school plan. If you're ready, open your laptop... most students in Kazakhstan aren't yet leaving their house to go back …
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Around the world, stories are emerging sharing the experiences of students, teachers and families as they adjust to the 'new normal' of distance learning while schools are shut and universities have switched to online delivery. Below is a recent article from Gazeta.uz reporting from Uzbekistan on university students' adaptation - it's in Russian but you …
Continue reading Adapting to online learning in Uzbekistan (Gazeta.uz)
With the world's attention drawn to the coronavirus pandemic for the foreseeable future, this week's post looks at the current impact of Covid-19 on education in Central Asia. First, a few shout outs to others reporting on the spread of coronavirus in the region. For general updates on what's happening across Central Asia, check out …
Fast, reliable and free internet access is widespread across many university and college campuses these days. In fact, access to the world wide web, often delivered wirelessly by wi-fi, is so much of an everyday expectation that those working on campus tend to take it for granted, noticing only on those rare occasions when the …
Continue reading Internot: Wi-fi access in Tajikistan’s universities still a pipe dream
More MOOC madness? The trend in higher education for MOOCs - massive open online courses - shows no sign of abating. We're now five years on from the so-called Year of the MOOC in 2012 and whilst MOOCs don't make the headlines so often any more, the number of courses and providers continues to mushroom. In 2016, …
Continue reading MOOC, meet Kazakhstan: Surfing a new wave of MOOC innovation
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