Schools are closed. Homeschooling techniques are a challenge. Best practices help parents and children to cope with distance learning.

A government’s education resource centre
To support the education sector, non-governmental organisations and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Slovak Republic launched an online platform with up-to-date information and guidelines for schools, teachers, parents, and students.
Programming training for children at home
The Digital Kids Foundation opens its resources for child programming training and launches a virtual programming training initiative in early April until the end of quarantine.

Providing an online course about SDGs and global education
An online learning platform will be open to everyone to develop knowledge and tools to integrate these aspects into teaching practice.
A research centre goes fully digital
The Oxford Research Centre of Humanities provides a variety of exciting competitions, articles, flash-fiction contests, podcasts and like online.

School laptops lent out to students
Some schools are lending their school computers to students so they can participate in online classes.

An overview on homeschooling techniques
Crisis response measures in many countries require schools to remain closed and children are being educated digitally. For parents, this poses the challenge of having to suddenly adapt to home-schooling techniques. In many cases, parents

Google drones deliver books to students in lockdown
Due to the acute corona situation, schools and libraries in parts of the USA are still closed. To provide pupils with reading material during the lockdown, a school library in the US state of Virginia

Tablets and internet access to for underprivileged pupils
Save the Children Italy provides children in their programmes with tablets and internet access to enable them to follow remote learning.

Online lessons adapted to context
A dutch teacher humorously adapted the content of online lessons to topics relevant to students in their current situation.

Daily sports lessons for elementary school children
In partnership with the Austrian Ministry of Education, SPORTUNION launched an online sports programme via Zoom and Facebook.

Celebrities read children’s books to entertain, educate and raise funds
By providing fun and education to kids and parents stuck at home during the coronavirus outbreak, #SaveWithStories collects funds for children in need.

Game against Covid-19
Unus Terra, a serious game against Covid-19 stimulates behavioral changes in the real world by leveraging persuasive design principles.