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COVID-19 Remote At maturity Regular Difficult Modetrate
initiatives learning
from home

The various inferences that can be a key role in making any of the new
drawn are: policies to be implemented efficiently
and successfully. Teachers should have
1. EDLP and Internet connectivity
(SchoolNet) initiatives are the most good skills and knowledge in using ICT
influential projects taken up for digital to improve their teaching methods that
learning in primary schools. will meet the demand of 21st century
teaching skills.
2. ICT labs and Sankore projects have
been implemented 10 years back and Summary, Limitation and Future
their influence is not comparable to the Research
current scenario.
Mauritius government has remarkably
3. The initiatives taken during scaled up digital learning infrastructure
COVID-19 pandemic may not be as in recent years with implementation
influential as others as per our defined of high impact projects. The present
parameters. However its significance paper made an attempt to study
is relatively higher due to the short various initiatives taken for integration
term quick response generated during of Digital Tools in learning and teaching
emergencies. process in primary schools of Mauritius.

The policy maker’s decision to bring The education system is going through
personalized learning into early a rapid transformation due to which,
childhood is making students digital the children of this generation are
savvy. EDLP has played a pivotal role not limited to traditional textbooks.
in reforming the basic education of the Their thirst for knowledge cannot
Republic of Mauritius and subsequent be quenched using the age – old
socio-economic development. This methodologies and pedagogies. Their
project is meeting three out of six hunger for ever increasing information
basic pillars of NYCBE i.e. Innovative can be satisfied by the use of the
Pedagogies, Assessment and Learning digital tools and internet in the form of
Environment. e-learning, digital textbooks, interactive
animation videos and integrating the ICT
Finally, the integration of ICT in the in the classroom room. The traditional
classroom is increasing the competency classrooms are getting transformed to
of the country’s education system. This “Next Generation SMART Classrooms”.
improves their world ranking of national The Mauritius government is focusing
education and produces a future ready on grooming the young generation and
workforce. In order to enhance the use investing in digital learning. The primary
of ICT in the classroom, the government schools have been upgraded with
needs to improve and change the national level digital initiatives such as
teachers’ belief about the integration Computer Labs (Cyber Caravan), Smart
of ICT in the classroom. Teachers play
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