Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on the Readiness of Preschool Educators for Distance Learning

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10.2991/aebmr.k.201205.026How to use a DOI?

Keywords

COVID-19 lockdown, preschool education, digital technology, distance learning, preschool teachers

Abstract

In Russia, in March-April 2020, as part of the COVID-19 lockdown, almost all preschool educational institutions were closed, but the e-learning format was much less in demand than in other countries. From the one hand this situation can be explained as Russian preschool institutions interpret the distance format as possible (for example, for certain categories of children), but not mandatory. Therefore, in Russia preschool teaching during the lockdown period can be characterized as spontaneous in using of distance learning technologies, which is explained, among other things, by the unpreparedness of preschool institutions for such work. Important factors of such readiness: the level of digital literacy of educators; the level of technical (digital) equipment (tools) of preschool institutions; active interest in distance technologies on the part of teachers and parents. The authors suggested that, even in a situation of rare use of distance technologies during the lockdown period, the public demand for such work was reported to contribute to create a positive attitude towards distance learning among preschool teachers. This article is devoted to testing this assumption.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - G.V. Pavlenko
AU  - A.I. Pavlenko
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/07
TI  - Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on the Readiness of Preschool Educators for Distance Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference on Digital Economy (ISCDE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 163
EP  - 168
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.201205.026
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.201205.026
ID  - Pavlenko2020
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