Upali Sedere writes about education and serves as an advisor to Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education. He notes that online learning is available to children and adults in many areas, but not others. One section of the population is enjoying online learning, with virtual classrooms, with all kinds of apps, whereas recently the UNESCO indicated a total of 826 million students are kept out of classrooms, and only 43 percent of this number has access to some form of online learning today. The numbers he gives come from the International Task Force on Teachers, also called The Teachers Task Force. The group is an international alliance of educators and organizations under UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The divide between the “haves” and “have-nots” is very clear in developing countries, especially those south of the Sahara Desert. There, 89 percent of learners do not have a household computer and 82 percent have no internet connection
Title: Only Half of World's Learners Able to Take Part in Distance Learning
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data-end-time='46542'>One section of the population is enjoying online learning, with virtual classrooms, with all kinds of apps, whereas recently the UNESCO indicated a total of 826 million students are kept out of classrooms, and only 43 percent of this number has access to some form of online learning today.</span> <span data-start-time='46542' data-end-time='54063'>The numbers he gives come from the International Task Force on Teachers, also called The Teachers Task Force.</span> <span data-start-time='54063' data-end-time='67521'>The group is an international alliance of educators and organizations under UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.</span> <span data-start-time='67521' data-end-time='78375'>The divide between the “haves” and “have-nots” is very clear in developing countries, especially those south of the Sahara Desert.</span> <span data-start-time='78375' data-end-time='88104'>There, 89 percent of learners do not have a household 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