International Education Conference 2021 for 145th celebration of Prince of Wales College (1876-2021)
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Due to Covid-19 pandemic situation, social distancing has become a main preventive measure and the world is changing a lot as a result of it.
Organisations use online platforms immensely to their day to day operations than before and searching alternative methods of functioning to cater the current challenges created by social distancing policies.
Schools are closed for months in many countries around the world and teachers and students forced to move to virtual platforms to continue education.
Many students and teachers around the world face difficulties to adapt to virtual methods of education due to lack of access to internet facilities, lack of resources such as desktop computers, laptops or smart phones, and lack of digital competency. Therefore teachers couldn’t reach all students using virtual methods.
However virtual methods of education provide opportunity for teachers to use more video and audio visuals using digital platforms to educate children in an effective way.
As well as many students and teachers use the vacation during the pandemic as an opportunity engage with some productive work such as to make innovative products, write new books or research articles, and to cultivate their home gardens.
Therefore it is evident, that there are many opportunities and challenges created as a result of Covid-19 pandemic and the world after the pandemic will not be the same.
In this scenario, Prince of Wales’ College, Moratuwa is planning to organise the “International Education Conference 2021” on 02nd and 03rd October 2021 in celebration of 145th anniversary of the college on the main theme of “Sustainable Education in the New Normal”.
Sub thematic areas in the conference are Interdependency of Education and Well-being, Building Student Leadership, Educational Technology and Digital Divide, Inclusive Education for Social Equality, Labour Market Trends and Education, and Modern Approaches and Challenges in Education. Experts from relevant fields will share their experiences and ideas during the plenary discussions under the main theme and sub thematic areas and participants will be able to interact with experts in the question-answer session at the end of each and every session.
This will be a golden opportunity for participants to enhance their knowledge on the various aspects of the field of education in the new normal.
