More than 1.5 billion students and young people around the world are affected by school and university closures due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
The Global Education Coalition launched by UNESCO seeks to facilitate inclusive learning opportunities for children and young people during this period of sudden and unprecedented disruption to education.
Investment in distance learning should both mitigate the immediate disruption caused by COVID-19 and establish approaches for developing more open and flexible education systems for the future.
