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HKU study reveals e-learning coordination team composition and functions, and teacher professional development as critical to school preparedness for the New Normal with potential to narrow the digital divide for low socioeconomic status (SES) students

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Adding to their previous findings on socioeconomic divide and digital divide, Professor Nancy Law, Deputy Director of the Centre of Information Technology in Education, and Dr Tan Cheng Yong, Associate Professor, Academic Unit of Social Contexts and Policies of Education of the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), released their second report this afternoon (August 25). The latest discovery includes a multi-level model on how schools’ e-learning policy and implementation affects their IT/e-learning coordination teams’ size, composition and performance which in terms affect teachers’ support and ultimately students’ learning. This issue is based on the data collected during school resumption from June to July 2020, in a study entitled “eCitizen Education 360”. The first batch of research findings was released on July 20, 2020.

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2020-08-25

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3rd

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