No recent reviews have been undertaken in relation to how social media and messaging apps can be used to effectively support education in low- and middle-income countries. In this scoping review, 43 documents were identified for inclusion, and three main thematic areas emerged: supporting student learning; teacher professional development; and supporting refugee education.

This paper examines and discusses refugees’ experiences with online higher education during COVID-19, a phenomenon which impacted millions of lives in displaced conditions.

En el siguiente informe se presentan los resultados de la investigación “Análisis comparativo del impacto del COVID-19 en la continuación y el acceso a la educación y el aprendizaje de la niñez migrante venezolana y comunidad de acogida” elaborado por Plan International, con el apoyo del Grupo Regional de Educación de América Latina y el Caribe, en el marco del Programa Multianual de Resiliencia regional (MYRP, por sus siglas en inglés) de UNICEF y Education Cannot Wait. 

To better understand the use of EdTech interventions as part of the Covid-19 response, in late 2020, EdTech Hub commissioned ten small-scale research studies in five low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper presents a summary and review of these studies to explore EdTech use in low-resource contexts during the Covid-19 pandemic and considers implications of its use in these contexts going forward.

To address the poor access to formal education, we designed an educational intervention consisting of a set of audio lessons that were delivered through mobile phones to primary school students using Interactive Voice Response. During the 15-week program period, parents could access the lessons for free by calling a designated phone number and listening to a lesson with their child at any time.

The Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE) and INEE hosted a webinar to celebrate the publication of JEiE Volume 8, Number 3 - Special Issue on Education in Pandemics!

In her review of Education, Equality and Justice in the New Normal, Deepa Srikantaiah writes that, without sustained grassroots resistance, capitalism and neoliberalism will set the postpandemic “new normal.” Meanwhile, she offers hope in the plurality of approaches to holistic education presented by the volume’s contributing authors.

Changha Lee’s review of Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries offers a snapshot of “learners at the bottom of the pyramid” and what the volume’s contributing authors suggest the EiE field must do to support these marginalized and hard-to-reach students.