Lebanon’s experience with distance learning

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As students across the world got ready for their first day back at school last fall, they could not have known that they would be spending almost all of the last trimester at home, communicating virtually with their teachers and deprived of the usually enjoyable social elements of campus life such as recess or after-school activities. Graduates of the class of 2020 who were looking forward to their proms and graduation ceremonies could never have imagined that those would be happening remotely, over a screen. Much like it did with many aspects of modern life—be it social interactions, work, or even grocery shopping—COVID-19-related lockdown measures have upended the current academic year with 134 country-wide school closures and 1.1 billion learners affected by the pandemic, according to June figures published by UNESCO. At the global peak of the pandemic in early April, there were 194 country-wide school closures affecting 1.3 billion