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Add to Preferred SourcesThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a grant-financed $750,000 Knowledge and Support Technical Assistance project to help Armenia improve resilience to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and other disasters by developing and operationalizing a distance education platform.
The project will support the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sport (MoESCS) to ensure quality and continuous education during times of emergency and normal situations. The assistance will improve the regulatory and institutional framework supporting distance learning, as well as the capacity of users through a training of trainers scheme for the effective operation of the distance education platform.
“Providing access to quality and continuous education for all students nationwide is a key goal for the government and supports ADB Strategy 2030’s guiding principles of promoting innovative technology and providing integrated solutions,” said ADB Country Director for Armenia Paolo Spantigati. “ADB will continue its support to the education sector reforms in the country as one of the strategic directions of its Country Partnership Strategy.”
Under the program, a distance education platform will be developed to provide more learning modalities and information in a learner-friendly format. The platform will support kindergarten through grade 12 education institutions to deliver online courses and provide teachers and students with real-time feedback mechanisms, assignment distribution, and monitoring, and other student-centric learning tools.
The program will help the government develop policies to provide equal opportunities for all to use the platform, which addresses the needs and diverse physical capabilities of learners, their caregivers, and teachers.
Original source: ADB