Belgium
Since March 16 colleges and K-12 schools in Flanders have been shut. In advanced education, all
homeroom based learning exercises have been suspended and supplanted with distance training. It is
normal that colleges in Flanders will continue to utilize distance instruction until the finish of the
scholastic year. In the main weeks, distant training in K-12 schools just centered around redundancy of
recently showed learning content. No new learning content could be presented. Strategy changed in
April 2020 when “pre-instructing” was presented. K-12 schools are relied upon to show little bundles of
new data to understudies that will later be expounded on in the study hall, most likely from May 15
(Onderwijs Vlaanderen, 2020).
Foundation for distance training is fairly best in class in Flanders. Most families have cell phones and
admittance to the web. The public authority is additionally gathering workstations to give them to
understudies who don’t have one at home (DigitalForYouth, 2020). A few telecom suppliers are briefly
offering free web network and various web-based stages are being utilized in both higher and K-12
schooling, including Google Hangouts, Smartschool, Microsoft Teams and Blackboard. At every
instructive level, instructors educate both simultaneously (live courses) and nonconcurrently (tasks,
educational recordings, input). Nonconcurrent instructing is by all accounts the prevailing model,
contrasted with the coordinated methodology.
Cyprus
Before the pandemic, the schooling framework in Cyprus was essentially founded on coordinated
learning exercises. The considerable joining of innovation, particularly in government funded instruction,
was missing. There was no substantial system for distance schooling, and just some advanced education
foundations had approaches and timetables for web based learning. The instructive arrangement of
Cyprus was not prepared to send a 100% distance training plan, explicitly in K-12 and auxiliary schools.
As declared by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, schools and colleges across Cyprus
needed to close as a prudent step to contain the spread of COVID-19, and during these seasons of
school conclusion in excess of 110,000 instructors and understudies joined and approached the Distance
Education System created by the Ministry.
Ireland
Irish schools and colleges shut on March 12, to alleviate local area transmission of the infection. The
reaction of schools and instructors to this emergency has been portrayed by extremely assorted
responses, exacerbated by the way that innovation arrangement in schools is exceptionally blended.
Some have broad innovation foundation while others are not also prepared. Altogether, 63% of
respondents to a school overview multi week into lockdown (Burke and Dempsey, 2020) accepted
school terminations would have an adverse consequence, with inconvenient effect on scholarly
advancement being a worry (however not the need). There was to a greater extent an attention by
respondents on the developmental, socialization parts of tutoring and specific concern was
communicated for understudies with uncommon instructive requirements and those from sociofinancially burdened foundations. Altogether, 58% of schools considered broadband network a need
when settling on essential choices for the conclusion time frame, with worries brought about variations
up in access and the “computerized partition”. Altogether, 43% of instructors are in touch with
understudies one time each week, and 29% consistently. As with the impacts of school conclusion on
staff, expanded pressure was featured, especially absence of preparing; worry for understudies and
their overall prosperity; intricacy of contending requests at home; and impression of unreasonable
assumptions from guardians/media.
The Netherlands
Schools in essential, optional, professional and advanced education have been shut since March 16
except for offspring of guardians with “fundamental positions” (for example medical care, instruction,
public vehicle) (Rijksoverheid, 2020). It is expected that K-12 schools will have continued getting sorted
out exercises in schools before the beginning of the late spring occasions, though in a redid way with It
is normal that colleges will arrange distance and online schooling until the finish of the scholastic year,
albeit a few offices and structures (library, research labs) are as yet available.