14 December 2020 - Wits University In 2021 many forms of support will be available to help staff and students transition from Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning (ERT&L) to online pedagogy. Looking back over 2020 The Wits Learning and Teaching Plan 2020-2024 contains seven focus areas, the first of which is, “Increasing flexible and life-long learning opportunities”. When Covid-19 struck and South Africa went under lockdown level 5 in March 2020, we accelerated the implementation of this focus area by moving to Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning (ERT&L) in an online mode from 20 April. ERT&L continued for the rest of the 2020 academic year, barring selected clinical and laboratory activities for small groups of students that required a physical presence.