Schools and training: lessons learned from Covid lockdown
A pupil from Ticino at his computer during the first virus wave lockdown Keystone / Samuel Golay
Teachers and pupils at schools and in vocational training faced a massive digital learning curve during the spring coronavirus lockdown in Switzerland, two studies have found. Some learners missed out.
This content was published on December 10, 2020 - 11:18
December 10, 2020 - 11:18
Isobel Leybold-Johnson
Isobel trained as a journalist in Great Britain and speaks all three Swiss national languages. She reports on education for swissinfo.ch.
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Although digital learning was not new in vocational schools, the abrupt move to online tools and teaching during the lockdown lead to “a huge extra effort didactically and time-wise”, a Swiss-wide surveyExternal link of these schools published on Thursday found.