Exploring modes of remote learning in Palestine during the pandemic—Opportunities & Challenges with guests Samaa Haniya, Asmaa Msutafa & Hassan Abed
Education is highly valued in Palestine--a ccording to a data report by the United Nations in 2018, nearly 95.4 percent of children attend schools. Yet, access to a high quality education is the point of contention. Students’ access to quality education is an ongoing economic, social and political upheaval. The arrival of the pandemic compounded to these challenges causing an unexpected disruption to the education system. Despite this fact, people were to find alternative ways to continue learning while socially distanced. In this episode we discuss how schools in Palestine were able to cope with the pandemic disruption. How did their remote learning model(s) look like? What are the opportunities that these models were able to offer? What are the associated challenges? What was the administration role to deal with the ongoing challenges, such as limited electricity, devices, and internet? And, how teachers were able to overcome these challenges?