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Elina MegalouComputer Technology Institute & Press

“DIOPHANTUS” (CTI)Strategy & Digital Educational Content Directorate

14-05-2020

COVID-19 pandemic:How Greece coped with

school closure and distance learning

LRE - EdReNe on-line seminar @ 14-05-2020 “Sharing experience in a time of pandemic”

Current status – Covid-19 Cases in Greece

Elina Megalou, CTI, 14-05-2020

• February 26th : the first COVID-19 case in Greece

• February 27th: the annual carnival in Patra cancelled and

all educational trips abroad were banned

• March 10th: With 89 cases and 0 deaths, all

schools and universities closed.• March 12th: 1st death. All movie theaters, gyms and

courtrooms closed.

• March 13th: shopping malls, cafés, restaurants, bars,

museums and archaeological sites closed. The days

followed beaches closes, as well as all churches for the

public.

events, measures & school closure

• March 23rd: with less than 700

cases and 17 deaths, Greece

adopted lockdown measures.

Initial goal: to offer pupils the opportunity to keep in touch with

the educational processThe Ministry of Education rapidly responded to this emergency by developing

and implementing

distance learning to Schools and Universities

[..] this crisis was an opportunity to bring forward a lot of reforms for the development of digital skills in the educational community [..]Niki Kerameos, Minister of Education

Covid-19Greek

educational measures

Distance learning overall

I. Synchronous (tele) teaching

II. Asynchronous learning

III. Educational TV lessons

Three axes:

Numbers & priorities

Primary & Secondary Education

13.000 schools (9,514 pr +3.491 sec)

167.800 teaches

1.367.000 pupils

Priority:last grade of secondary school

Potential technical solutions and tools for synchronous and asynchronous learning

Technical solutions offered free of charge byMicrosoft, CISCO and Google

Existing technical platforms and services provided by the MoE and its organizations

GDPR and other safety issues

Greek School Network (sch.gr), a national service of the MoE for providing pupil and teacher accounts (GSN accounts)

Unique ID – authentication – SSO

Distance learning

Instructions &

communication campaign

#mathainoumestospiti

Ι. Synchronous (tele)teaching

CISCO Webex meetings platform

Elina Megalou, CTI, 14-05-2020Statistics: April 29th, 2020

Ι. Synchronous (tele)teaching

Greek School Network (GSN) pupil & teacher accounts

Statistics: April 29th, 2020

1. Educational resources

2. Two e-learning platforms

Compulsory

Supported by

Digital School resources & services to support asynchronous distance learning

dschool.edu.gr

II. Asynchronous learning 1. Educational resources

ebooks.edu.gr

Interactive textbooks

Photodentro Educational Repositories

National Aggregator of Educational Content PHOTODENTRO

photodentro.edu.gr

National Aggregator of Educational Content PHOTODENTRO

photodentro.edu.gr

photodentro.edu.gr/lor

Statistics: 13/05/2020

Statistics: 13-03-2020 to 13-05-2020 (compared to the same period last year)

1. Educational resources

II. Asynchronous learning 2. Two e-learning platforms

e-me digital educational platform e-class LMS

Designed and developed by CTI (2014-..)Funded by the Digital School Program

A service provided by the Greek School Network

all available resources, platforms and tools, manuals, training material, videos etc.in a single page

https://dschool.edu.gr/menoumespiti/

III. Educational television

Greece uses

state TV to teach

school children

during

coronavirus

lockdown

MoE with the cooperation of Greek state broadcaster ERT

III. Educational television Lessons included

Greek language,

natural sciences,

mathematics,

history, foreign

languages etc.

145.000 pupils (4-14 years old) followed EduTv programs in April

II. Asynchronous learninge-me digital educational platform

WITHe-me.edu.gr

since school closure, the number of e-me users increased by 4,300%

Before Covid-19 (14/03/2020): 10.000 usersToday (14/05/2020): 430.000 users

What is e-me?

an open, social digital educational platform, designed to serve as the main digital working space for all pupils and teachers in primary and secondary education

WITHe-me.edu.gr

e-me provides:

a safe place for collaboration, communication, sharing of files on the cloud and use of digital content

e-me supports social networking of pupils and teachers

It is fully extendable

WITHe-me.edu.gr

Hives: e-me collaboration spaces

100.706 hives (digital classes or other collaboration groups)

3.000 hives by pupils

10.000 public hives

10,000 public hives –open educational Communities

WITHe-me.edu.gr

e-me Hives Wall proved to be a strong pedagogical tool

WITHe-me.edu.gr

e-me content: h5p tool to create interactive learning resources (.h5p files)

Teachers developed 165.000 new interactive learning resources in two months!

WITHe-me.edu.gr

Photodentro UGC: new “e-me content” collection

New collection in Photodentro UGC repository for teachers, to organize and share “e-me content” OERs!

comments

133 OERs already

WITHe-me.edu.gr

e-me assignments: creating and assigning tasks

The most popular e-me app. It was used as a tool to support differentiated learning.

WITHe-me.edu.gr

Personal storage, cloud-based file sharing

Social networking1-1 skype-like communication

Workgroups and collaboration spaces

E-me assignments e-portfolio system

My Photodentro e-me content e-me blogs

Trusted store of (free) e-me apps

e-me core functionality

WITHe-me.edu.gr

e-me 4 all

WITHe-me.edu.gr

No need for GSN account

Selected platform to support distance learning for the Greek schools abroad

* Available for EU projects

Elina Megalou, CTI, 14-05-2020Statistics: April 29th, 2020

WITHe-me.edu.gr

Some statistics

WITHe-me.edu.gr

Teachers training: Community-based training

. • Facebook groups for distance learning

• Webinars• A large number of

videos (instructional, tutorials, how-to) developed and shared by teachers!

• e-me public hives

WITHe-me.edu.gr

Current status New moto: Stay Safe

Back to schools plan

Thank you!

Elina Megalou

megalou@cti.gr

Computer Technology Institute & Press “DIOPHANTUS” (CTI)Strategy & Digital Educational Content Directorate

14-05-2020

COVID-19 pandemic:How Greece coped with

LRE - EdReNe on-line seminar @ 14-05-2020 “Sharing experience in a time of pandemic”

COVID-19 pandemic: How Greece coped with school closure and … · 2020-07-28 · Strategy &...

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