EDU 2.0 RESEARCH BLOGS
“A historian uses detective work and guesswork to piece together resources and draw conclusions, while a recorded interview is a first-hand account told by a witness to history. It is living source material.
DOUG BOYD”
Using Oral History to Record Stories of Educational Change During Covid-19
Linda Herrera & Nairy AbdElShafy Sept. 17, 2020
In March 2020 in the wake of Covid-19, Egyptian schools abruptly closed. The RDP turned to oral history narratives to learn how students and their school communities were adapting to and navigating fast-changing events.
When Educational Research Goes Remote: Lessons from a Pilot Study in Egypt During Covid-19
Linda Herrera & Heba Shama Aug. 28, 2020
The Education 2.0 Research and Documentation Project (RDP) which researches and documents education sector change in Egypt, swiftly developed a pilot study, “Schooling in Egypt during COVID-19”… we seized on the opportunity to experiment with new and changing online tools and platforms to facilitate our remote qualitative research.
Blended Learning is Coming to a School Near You: Research Reflections from Egypt during Covid-19
Linda Herrera July 15, 2020
As schools around the world prepare for fall 2020 with high degrees of pandemic apprehension, scores of school leaders are talking about “blended learning” or a “hybrid model.” Blended learning combines educational delivery models, most commonly face-to-face on-site learning with synchronous and asynchronous online learning… Across the board, people want schools up and running, however no one is sure how to implement and manage the blended model, nor how to allocate roles and responsibilities in ways that will satisfy the social, developmental, and pedagogic goals of schooling.
