United Nations - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

access to and improve the quality of online learning, As UNESCO reports, school closures 2 as well as introduce blended learning environments The burden on parents to facilitate the online learning both within and beyond the pandemic context. [...] As a result, the geographic proportion of single female-headed households in the reach and overall quality of online learning is often Caribbean (Stuart, 2014), this responsibility to dictated by the coverage of these technologies and an facilitate online learning often falls to women, uninterrupted power supply. [...] sustainable development in the Caribbean Although Internet penetration is high in most The uneven implementation of online learning has Caribbean countries, with the exception of Cuba and resulted in millions of students losing months and, in Haiti, quality and affordability of Internet access and many cases, close to a year of education. [...] To encourage consistent application Considering these implications, the ECLAC of online learning at the primary and secondary subregional headquarters for the Caribbean levels, guidelines for online learning deployment and undertook research on online learning experiences in hardware use were developed in Barbados and the Caribbean during the COVID-19 pandemic, Trinidad and Tobago. [...] The study aimed to emergency and ad hoc decision-making characterized highlight online learning adaptations in the subregion the early stages of the pandemic, leading to high and identify best practices and recommendations to procurement costs and a lack of economies of scale.