This document discusses challenges and lessons learned regarding education in Romania during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a 7-step approach for moving education online and emphasizes communicating with students, considering health and well-being, and guarding against disinformation. The pandemic is viewed as an opportunity to reset education by promoting digital skills, open educational resources, and connectivity. Resilient, quality education requires supporting teachers' continuous learning and adopting open, blended models at institutional, national, European and international levels through collaboration and sharing best practices.

1. education: challenges and
lessons learnt in Romania
Assoc. prof. dr. Gabriela Grosseck
West University of Timisoara, Romania
Prof. univ. dr. Carmen Holotescu
“Ioan Slavici” University of Timisoara, Romania
Online Teaching Reshape Education during and after COVID-19
3 June 2020

2. 7steps approach 11 March 2020
1. What is the appropriate technology?
2. Training to use the appropriate technology.
3. Create a virtual space for your course within institutional LMS.
4. Prepare lessons for online teaching.
5. Seek constant feedback from students.
6. Communicate with social media.
7. Other aspects to consider: health, self-care, socio-emotional
learning, balancing work and life, emotional hygiene,
disinformation burnout, ethics …
Bran, R., & Grosseck, G. (2020). Press RESET: Digitalising Education in Disruptive Times. Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, 12(1Sup2), 39-48. https://doi.org/10.18662/rrem/12.1sup1/245

3. Stability Safety
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Restoring and Resetting Education
“The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of
opportunity to reflect, reimagine and reset our world.”
Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

4. • the pandemic has changed how
learners around the globe are
educated (in April 91% from 194
countries)
• new solutions for education - rapidly
adopted, could bring much needed
innovation
• teachers and students acquired new
digital, learning and facilitating skills
• given the digital divide, new shifts in
education approaches could widen
equality gaps - worldwide only 60%
could be online, in Romania too.
This crises: opportunity to remind
ourselves of the skills students need in
this unpredictable world:
• informed decision making,
• creative problem solving, and
perhaps above all,
• adaptability.
https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse

5. We should rethink the role of a resilient and quality Education:
Institutional level
• motivate teachers to learn continuously (in in/formal programs,
MOOCs)
• adopt open educational practices/blended learning, integrate OERs
and MOOCs
National level
• programs for infrastructure, connectivity
• promote Open Education principles
• transparent public-private partnerships
European level
• recovery instrument NextGenerationEU: supporting distance learning
and digital skills development
• projects for opening up education, micro-credentials for formal
recognition of different learning paths (MOOCs)
International level
• collaboration for sharing best practices, for communities of practice
of teachers and policy makers
• for adopting UNESCO Recommendations for OER/Dynamic Coalition
of OER
https://iite.unesco.org/news/iite-inruled-new-guidance-on-open-educational-practices-during-covid-19/

6. Thank you!
Gabriela Grosseck
Twitter: @ggrosseck
Carmen Holotescu
Twitter: @cami13
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