Modeling Remote Learning in Nigeria: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Remote Learning, Nigeria, Elementary, Education, Covid-19
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Education globally is among the sectors with devastating impact from the Covid-19 pandemic. Before the pandemic, Nigeria accounted for approximately 20% of the global out-of-school population. Its education system heavily adopted the face-to-face approach to teaching and learning in schools. This learning method exacerbated the digital divide gap during the Covid-19 pandemic, as most students could not continue their education. This reality has informed UNESCO’s (2021) social contract on education, urging attention to be directed to nations that global challenges threaten their rights to education. Therefore, this study aimed to address the problem of the out-of-school population from the foundation (elementary schools) by investigating the remote learning strategies used in primary schools globally. Two questions guided this study: What promising strategies are in the existing research literature on remote teaching and learning? What are the possibilities and limitations of those remote teaching and learning strategies for Nigeria? A systematic literature review was conducted through the documented reality of what has been happening in different nations since the Covid-19 pandemic with remote learning. Three themes emerged as necessary strategies to effectively implement remote learning in Nigerian elementary schools. They include (1) the utilization of a variety of technologies (2) the provision of support during remote learning (3) adaptations to traditional teaching methods. These findings speak to the need to add educators' voices in bridging the existing gap with remote learning and inform new policy developments targeted at elementary schools. Similarly, mobile learning intervention looks promising since Nigeria's recorded increase in smartphone use and internet penetration. Significantly, this paper will cause some deep reflections on the practise of remote learning at the elementary level and promote changes in the teaching pedagogy.
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