Beyond the Pandemic: Lessons Learned from COVID 19

The world has not seen a crisis like COVID 19 in more than a century… If ever. What makes this pandemic different is globalization, intercontinental trade and travel, and a society operating at an unprecedented and accelerating velocity. But one thing the pandemic has made clear is that business-as-usual is no longer an acceptable strategy. Things will never be the same. Nor will education, which may be a good thing.

Recognizing that real change is necessary. SynED was created to identify solutions, promote innovations on the margins,
and implement them using established business practices to achieve optimal results for educational institutions. SynED’s quarterly compendium, ReportOUT, focuses on the non-traditional with the understanding that effective educational practices can be found in some unlikely places.

This volume of ReportOUT is dedicated to the idea that this crisis has stimulated innovation – everywhere – but especially within the education sector. Some of those developments are highlighted in this ReportOUT.