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USQ-based panel discussing education and COVID-19 influences. Good example of the use of Voicethread for asynchronous discussion.

The global pandemic has pushed educators around the world to a transformative moment for online learning. Since February 2020, an unprecedented number of teachers, students, and parents have become exposed to a new mode of teaching. Teachers did not have the luxury of options, as online education came towards them, shouting "Ready or not, here I come!" The transformation is deep and wide: All levels of teaching, from pre-k classes to doctoral programs, moved to the cloud. Every discipline, from physics to physical education, from chemistry to creative writing, has a chance to test their limits and potentials in the new modality of teaching.

Collated by Dr Tony Bates This is just a selection, of course, with a particular focus on North America, and will be added to as new reports emerge. They are roughly in sequential order of the date of publication, although not all full dates were available.