DEASA: Draft Policy Brief SADC-ODeL Response to Covid-19

The purpose of the policy brief is to advocate for urgent development of appropriate policies and strategies to fully enable remote online teaching and learning, and to guide the adoption and implementation of open, distance and online learning policies, models and systems for teaching and learning during – and after – the Covid-19 pandemic.

The proposed policy considerations are underpinned by the SADC context in terms of the current teaching and learning practices, and specifically, the 1997 SADC Protocol on Education and Training aimed at harmonising education and training in the region, and the 2012 SADC Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Regional Policy Framework and its related instruments developed to promote ODL and support the domestication of the protocol and Regional ODL Policy Framework.

Read the draft here: http://www.deasa.org/deasa/announcements/Policy%20brief%20DEASA%20response%20Covid%200420%20(1).pdf