Pandemic pushes digitisation in Swiss education

The Covid-19 pandemic was a challenge for the Swiss education system, but also opened new opportunities in the digital sphere, says the Swiss Education Report 2023. “The temporary ban on face-to-face teaching in particular created challenges for the players in the education system, for instance with regard to lesson design and structuring,” says this report published on Tuesday. “However, the sudden switch to digital, remote teaching also opened up numerous opportunities and provided a possibility to take an in-depth look at new questions such as: were there observable effects on the performance of school pupils, apprentices and students?” The report by the Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education (SKBF) has been published periodically since 2010, but this one was delayed for a year, notably to allow investigation on the short-term effects of the pandemic on the education system in 2020 and 2021. According to the SKBF website, it “provides data and information from...