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Ante la pandemia de covid-19 y el cierre masivo de instituciones educativas, los países nórdicos han liberado herramientas educativas online.

Los números son alarmantes: en el mundo ya hay más de 1.500 millones de estudiantes sin poder asistir a clases por la pandemia de covid-19, según la Unesco.

Eso equivale al 91% del total de estudiantes inscritos en un total de 188 países.

Ante ello, los centros educativos de forma particular o los países de forma general intentan ofrecer alternativas online para seguir educando de forma remota.

Y si hay un país con un excelente sistema educativo y experiencia digital es Estonia.

En 2014 esta pequeña nación comenzó una transformación tecnológica de su sistema educativo que la convirtió en el número uno de Europa en las pruebas PISA, siendo superado a nivel global solo por China, Singapur y Macao.

"Tenemos una serie de soluciones que dan un apoyo completo al aprendizaje a distancia. Estamos listos para compartir las mejores prácticas y soluciones de Estonia con los países que lo necesitan", dijo Mart Laidmets, secretario general del Ministerio de Educación e Investigación del país, a mediados de marzo.

Tras el ejemplo de Estonia, que liberó gratis sus herramientas online, otros siete países nórdicos se sumaron a la iniciativa en los siguientes días.

Así Dinamarca, Finlandia, Islandia, Letonia, Lituania, Noruega y Suecia, que también suelen liderar los rankings educativos, pusieron a disposición de la comunidad internacional sus plataformas de enseñanza digital.

El elogiado modelo educativo nórdico, además de contar con una fuerte financiación estatal, se basa en el concepto de "bildung".

Como explican los académicos Lene Rachel Andersen y Tomas Björkman en su libro "El secreto nórdico" (2017), "bildung es la forma en que el individuo madura y asume una responsabilidad personal cada vez mayor hacia la familia, amigos, conciudadanos, sociedad, humanidad, nuestro mundo y el patrimonio mundial de nuestra especie, mientras disfruta de libertades personales, morales y existenciales cada vez mayores".

La lista de herramientas online de los países nórdicos, publicada bajo el título "Education Nation" (nación educativa) y recomendada por Unesco, contiene más de 40 opciones y continúa ampliándose.

En BBC Mundo elegimos las 11 que están disponibles en español o no tienen idioma alguno.

Videojuego social con el que los niños pueden aprender matemáticas a la distancia, mientras los docentes reciben datos de su desempeño.

Nivel: educación primaria.

Videojuego de lógica o puzzle para aprender los conceptos básicos de programación de forma orgánica.

Nivel: educación general.

Plataforma para tomar cursos basados en juegos o para que los docentes enseñen con sus propios videojuegos, incluyendo hasta evaluaciones.

Nivel: educación superior.

Cursos para aprender a programar en lenguajes reales de código con una estética de videojuego.

Nivel: educación general.

Plataforma para que los docentes puedan enseñar matemáticas, asignando ejercicios a los estudiantes y analizando sus fortalezas y debilidades individuales.

Nivel: educación primaria.

Plataforma para que los niños creen videos en equipo y a la distancia con objetivos específicos establecidos por los docentes.

Nivel: educación general.

Colección de materiales educativos innovadores que incluye videos, actividades para imprimir, aplicaciones y más.

Plataforma de aprendizaje de idiomas que adapta los cursos a las necesidades del alumno. Los docentes también pueden crear sus propias aulas virtuales.

Nivel: educación secundaria.

Programa de intercambio digital para docentes que enseñan inglés o español y desean que sus alumnos practiquen con nativos de la lengua.

Nivel: educación secundaria.

Herramienta que permite a los docentes diseñar videojuegos con tareas y retos que los estudiantes deben resolver para ganar puntos.

Nivel: educación general.

Plataforma de aprendizaje de idiomas que enseña palabras y oraciones basadas en su relevancia estadística.

Nivel: educación general.

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What surprisingly matters most when speaking a new language

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Instead of looking at a foreign language as an art to be mastered and perfected, think of it as a tool you can use to get a result, says communication skills trainer Marianna Pascal.

When we're studying a new language, many of us approach it with fear and trepidation. If we make a mistake or say something wrong, we wince, freeze up, and judge ourselves harshly. But as it turns out, however, we'd benefit by shifting our focus and worry less about getting it right, according to communication skills trainer Marianna Pascal in a TEDxPenangRoad Talk.

Pascal has spent 20 years in Malaysia helping people speak better English. Over time, she's discovered a surprising truth: How well somebody communicates in a new language has very little to do with their language level - and a lot more to do with their attitude.

As a teacher, she'd noticed that some students had a relatively low command of English but could still communicate very effectively. She recalls one specific student named Faisal, who was a factory supervisor. Despite not knowing much English, she says, "this guy could just sit and listen to anybody very calmly, clearly, and then he could respond [and] absolutely express his thoughts beautifully." She'd also observed some students in the opposite situation - people who knew quite a bit of English but who struggled to make themselves understood.

Then Pascal had a realization. She recalls, "My daughter at that time was taking piano lessons, and I started to notice two really strong similarities between my daughter's attitude or thinking towards playing the piano and a lot of Malaysians' thinking or attitude towards English."

The first similarity had to do with the fear of being wrong. Pascal says her daughter hated piano, hated the lessons, and hated practicing. As she puts it, "she was filled with this ... dread because it was all about not screwing up, right? To both my daughter and her teacher, her success in piano was measured by how few mistakes she made."

Pascal adds, "Now at the same time, I noticed that a lot of Malaysians went into English conversations with the same sort of feeling of dread- this ... feeling that they were going to be judged by how many mistakes they were going to make and whether or not they were going to screw up."

The second similarity had to do with self-image. Pascal says, "My daughter, she knew what good piano sounded like, right? Because we've all heard good piano, and she knew what her level was, and she knew how long she'd have to play for, to play like that."

The same thing happens to English learners, Pascal realized: "A lot of Malaysians, I noticed, had this idea of what good, proper English is supposed to sound like ... and what their English sounded like, and how far they'd have to go to get there."

Still, that didn't answer her question - while she now knew what made some people struggle, she didn't quite know what made other people succeed.

Then she went to a cyber cafe. The person sitting next to her was playing a shoot-'em-up game while his friends watched, and he just wasn't a very good player. But at the same time, she saw something remarkable: "Even though this guy was terrible, even though his friends were watching him, there was no embarrassment. There was no feeling of being judged. There was no shyness." Instead, he was focused completely on the task at hand: shooting his opponents.

Pascal says, "I suddenly realized, this is it. This is the same attitude that people like Faisal have when they speak English." Just like the lousy player, when Faisal enters an English conversation, she explains, "he doesn't feel judged. He's entirely focused on the person that he's speaking to and the result he wants to get. He's got no self-awareness, no thoughts about his own mistakes."

There's a significant difference between someone who speaks a new language like they're playing piano and someone who speaks it like they are playing a video game. It has to do with where they're putting their focus. On one hand, Pascal says, "We've got the one who's got a high level - but totally focused on herself and getting it right and therefore very ineffective. We've got another one low-level, but totally focused on the person she's talking to and getting a result - effective."

Pascal believes that speaking a language is not like those exams that many of us had to take in grade school, where a tiny spelling or grammar mistake would result in a big red X from the teacher. In the real world, small errors don't matter - what matters is whether we're able to make ourselves understood. She says, "If you want to speak English like Faisal with that great confidence, here's the one thing that you can do when you speak. Don't focus on yourself; focus on the other person and the result you want to achieve."

Pascal's bottom line: "Language belongs to you. It's not an art to be mastered. It's just a tool to use to get a result." And, she adds, "that tool belongs to you."
Watch her TEDxPenangRoad Talk now:
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Daniella Balarezo is a Media Fellow at TEDx. She is also a writer and comedian based in NYC.
This post was originally published on TED Ideas. It's part of the "How to Be a Better Human" series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from someone in the TED community; browse through all the posts here.

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"It typically takes months to launch really high quality online learning programs"

According to NYU Shanghai, more than 1,000 students and faculty successfully participated in the first week of the program, from as far away as Brazil, India, the US, and as close by as the university's residence halls.

In order to make it work, "an extraordinarily high level of collaboration and coordination" had to take place internally, explained NYU Shanghai provost, Joanna Waley-Cohen.

As more institutions embrace digital technology as a means of mitigating some of the impact of coronavirus-related school closures, questions are arising as to how seamless the switch from offline to online delivery can be, and how both modes of delivery compare in terms of learning impact.

According to Keith Ross, dean of Engineering and Computer Science at NYU Shanghai, one clear benefit of using "asynchronous interactions" over real-time delivery is that it has encouraged shy students, who normally do not ask questions in the classroom, to participate in discussions.

And at Spain's IE University - where all classroom-based courses at the Segovia campus are being moved online because of recently diagnosed cases of COVID-19 among its student population - feedback about the shift is reported to be positive.

"We bolstered the content on our online training platform for all our students who cannot attend classes on campus, and the feedback we have received is very positive," said Gonzalo Garland, vice president of External Relations at IE.

However he added, "Twenty years ago, we were pioneers in Europe with the launch of our online training programs." All 7,000 IE students have had access to online platforms to continue their studies.

Bur while much has been made of efforts, like China's, to switch to online learning, other education administrators are likely to run into technical and infrastructural issues.

"It typically takes months to launch really high quality online learning programs that reflect the quality of top education brands," related Luyen Chou, chief learning officer at 2U, which works with institutions around the world to develop their online learning platforms.

And at Canada's Humber College, director of the English Language Centre, Stephen Allen, who studies online learning ecosystems, explained that a problem can occur when simply transferring lessons that are designed for the classroom to an online environment.

"This increases the potential for materials to be at best, dull, but at worse, not supporting student learning," he told The PIE.

"I'm worried that it can set a benchmark of low to reasonable online education"

"There's a myth that creating online learning experiences is as easy as uploading all the resources you use in class and recording a few lectures," agreed Lisa McIntyre-Hite, senior advisor at consultancy firm Entangled Solutions. "In reality, bringing an on-ground course online requires institutions to think of so much more than just course content," she said.

"Segueing from offline delivery to online is no easy task and will require both students and teachers to adjust how they learn and teach to an online context," confirmed Robert Hsiung, China CEO of online educational company, Emeritus.

He told The PIE that over the past number of years, online education has evolved to adapt to the online learning environment.

"Most schools have directly replaced offline class time with online class time. In China, students must log in every day to online platforms to listen to teachers, however, teachers are finding that students are having difficulty staying attentive in this online format.

"The problem they are facing is very similar to the issue that MOOCs face," he added, referring to the low completion rates for pre-recorded online video courses.

The small private online courses (SPOCS) that EMERITUS offers has, by comparison, over a 90% completion rate.

But, Hsiung continued, the benefit of this shift to online is that it will force educators to change the way they approach teaching and learning, from a learn-by-lecturing/listening to learning-by-doing, interactive format.

"When the coronavirus fears subside and students return to school, there will be a higher acceptance of online learning creating opportunities for online education platforms like Emeritus, but more importantly, the quality of global education will have taken a significant step forward."

In an episode of The Edtech Podcast, Digital Learning designer at Cardiff University, Neil Mosley, said he felt that there are both pros and cons to the digital uptake.

"There are many people who are reluctant or cynical about online learning so this forces them to engage with that, and in my experience that is always a positive thing," he said.

"I also worry about the unintended consequences of quickly scaling online provisions - I'm worried that it can set a benchmark of low to reasonable online education, and I think we need to raise the quality of online education."

"Countries like China and India with booming youth populations really have no choice"

Chou at 2U is hopeful that the move online could be a critical solution to higher education's capacity problem.

"My hope is that this period will prove to be a useful testing ground that pushes schools to think more holistically about their long-term online learning strategies," he said.

"Universities in countries like China and India with booming youth populations really have no choice but to look online in order to support the educational needs in their markets."

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