The present study explored the reasons behind the resilience of slum dweller-learners that enabled them to face adverse life circumstances amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and helped them to fight back in the new normal class. This study employed qualitative in nature and Interpretative...

Having moved predominantly online with the UK national lockdown of 2020, a comparison was made of two entrepreneurship courses at The University of Manchester, taught its first online academic year, with the previous year’s versions which were face to face.It was found that students generally...

Online education has never been more relevant than after the pandemic in 2020. Many classrooms moved to the online format for the first time. This study looked at how date of student entry and activities in online learning affect final grades and student-reported learning in higher education....

Motivated by a long-standing gap between inventory theory and practice, we study online inventory models with unknown cyclic demand distributions. We design efficient bandits-atop-reinforcement-learning algorithms that cater to the structure of inventory problems. We apply the standard...

Context: Sense-making, understood as meaning making or giving meaning to experience, is an integral part of everyday life, work and learning, and is a process critical in enabling people to recognise how and when to respond to situations appropriately so that they can resolve problems...

Italy was the first Western country hit by Covid-19 in February 2020, responding with a tight lockdown and full school closure until the end of the school year. This paper estimates the effect of the pandemic and school closure on the math skills of primary school pupils in Italy. We compare the...

By using PISA 2018 data, we investigate the associations between digital divides and educational inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. We find strong and significant cognitive losses of students lacking the resources needed to learn remotely; everything else...