Digital Transformation in Education Report

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our daily life, while a significant part of it has now moved online. Education is one of the areas that has been notably affected by the above change. This new era creates challenges and opportunities for Education, while teachers are called to rapidly adapt to these unprecedented circumstances, in order to serve their role, having as an ally the tools offered by Information & Communication Technology.  

Socialinnov conducted a survey in order to map the changes the pandemic brought in the educational landscape and draw useful and important conclusions about the Digital Transformation of schools in the COVID-19 era. 

The most important findings are: 

  • Private Education continues to lead the Digital Transformation of schools.
     
  • Primary Education acted more rapidly and efficiently than Secondary Education during the pandemic.
     
  • The entities that promote the most the Digital Transformation of Greek schools are the Ministry of Education, the directorate of schools and the educators themselves. The above finding shows a significant change in comparison with the findings of the pre-COVID-19 survey, as then, the Ministry of Education had not emerged as a decisive factor in the Digital Transformation of schools.

     

  • Exceptionally encouraging for the future of distance learning is the very positive response of educators, regarding whether they believe that practices of synchronous/ asynchronous distance learning should be permanently adopted by schools, in cases where physical training cannot be implemented.
     
  • There is an urgent need for training educators in synchronous/ asynchronous teaching online platforms. Almost in absolute majority, educators recognized the need for their upskilling, aiming to become in the future more efficient in their roles, by becoming accustomed with the tools offered by Technology for distance learning. 

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