Tools for online learning
The world’s biggest technology companies have leaped into action to provide resources, and that is an ideal starting point to understand what is available and possible.
Microsoft offers resources to both teachers and students for moving to a virtual classroom. Its superbly constructed Remote Learning portal includes webinars to learn best practice, as well as a guide for parents, at:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/remote-learning
Google offers a guide to home educational techniques, resources and tools, including setting up a home for video calling and how to live-stream lessons, at its “Teach from Home” hub, at:
https://teachfromhome.google/intl/en/
Apple is heavily focused on its own products, but for those embedded in its ecosystem, a guide is offered at:
https://www.apple.com/education/
Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning platform, has published a guide to online learning planning tools and resources “for when the classroom closes”, at:
https://www.instructure.com/canvas/tools-for-online-learning-when-the-classroom-closes
Blackboard, one of the world’s largest educational technology companies, used by many South African schools, has a comprehensive and practical guide to “Preparing to Scale Teaching and Learning Online”, at:
https://www.blackboard.com/go/scale-teaching-and-learning-online
There are many other tools and resources. In South Africa, Siyavula has for years made maths and science textbooks and curriculum material available for grades 4 to 12 at no cost, for handsets and computer. No less than 10-million textbooks have been provided for free in this way. It also offers a Siyavula Practice online learning tool. Find it at:
https://www.siyavula.com/
Read more on the next page about the tips and tricks for remote teaching.
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