Use of Innovation and Emerging Technologies to Address Covid-19-Like Pandemics Challenges in Education Systems

Chehri, A.; Popova, T. N.; Vinogradova, N. V.; Burenina, V. I.

In this crisis of the COVID19 pandemic, for which the public and private educational system was not prepared, the measures of confinement and social distancing forced us all to experiment with various distance education strategies. The experiences have been diverse, between the absurd and creative. The digital transformation of our societies has been underway for a long time, and it has accelerated in recent years with the advance of many emerging technologies. These emerging technologies to address covid-19-like pandemics challenges in education systems been-or is being-implemented in several countries. This paper introduces the digital transformation of education and the significant trends in technologies applied to education. We track current the education systems’ response to COVID-19 across the world and in Canada and Russia, particularly. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.