NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend toward digital online learningin both education and businesswas growing at a steady pace. As the pandemic surged, tens of millions were forced to work from home and college classrooms were shuttered, and the trend turned to a tsunami, leaving many businesses completely unprepared for the new normal. Now both the present and the future of learning and work has moved online, and whole ecosystems must move to e-learning to survive. Demand has surged for customized and scalable online learning products in a single, easy-to-use format. This is the sweet spot for AmesiteInc. (NASDAQ: AMST)(Profile), an award-winning artificial intelligence (AI) software company that delivers online learning ecosystems for business, higher education and K-12. Amesite's product portfolio is complemented by a robust suite of services that help partners implement new programs and improve existing ones. Most recently, Amesite introduced Manage, a creative new functionality that enables schools and businesses to efficiently build and customize new courses, or onboard existing ones, at their own pace. In September, Amesite completed its initial public offering, joining peers such as 2U Inc. (NASDAQ: TWOU), Stride Inc. (NYSE: LRN), Chegg Inc. (NYSE: CHGG) and Pluralsight Inc. (NASDAQ: PS) that strive to improve learning environments with their technology and services.

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Recognizing the Need, Providing the Solution

Business and education have historically been conducted in person and offline, in offices and in classrooms. That dynamic has certainly changed. Among other things, 2020 taught the world that many interactions can be efficiently and effectively accomplished in a virtual format. One of the biggest impediments to more rapid uptake is that workforces are unprepared to learn online. Sure, Zoom and other communication platforms serve a purpose, but these aren't the type of comprehensive platforms that will properly shepherd in the next generation of educating people in a process that is easily accessible, affordable and engaging.

To achieve education transformation, technology must be able to easily address both new and legacy programs. Gone are the days of "one size fits all" video cassette sessions or, even worse, wasting money on printed material to provide information. People simply don't learn, retain or have the opportunity to excel under those moribund modalities. Furthermore, there's a necessity today to be able to teach a multiplicity of individual complexities such as safety and compliance Issues or new skills in data management delivered digitally and customizable in a single ecosystem with the ability to track and enhance efficacy.

Easing into the Digital Age

AmesiteInc. (NASDAQ: AMST)was founded for the exact purpose of overcoming these challenges and bring businesses, schools and universities easily into the digital age. Dedicated to improving the way the world learns, passion and technology drive Amesite, with the whole team committed to ensuring that education is accessible to all. Not just accessible, Amesite is intent on making education better, making teacher's jobs easier and encouraging engagement, which is when the best learning transpires. Considering that COVID-19 caused the loss of between 500 million and 1 billionschool years worldwide, the value of Amesite's platform becomes obvious.

Online education will almost certainly co-exist with traditional in-class learning even on the other side of the pandemic. "Online learning has the potential to transform all of education, and online tools are crucial for supporting all kinds of learning," stated Amesite CEO Ann Marie Sastry. "Online offers flexibility, engagement and customization for students. Most importantly it's often the only practical way that professionals can upskill. So it's absolutely essential that the best technology be deployed, to support growth for individuals and for enterprises."

Tech Teaches

Amesite builds and delivers unique artificial-intelligence software products designed to improve learning across any industry or educational discipline. For business, AMST provides a single, easy-to-use platform for compliance and training that increases productivity and up-to-date certifications. Amesite couples this success with best-in-class analytics to analyze trends with 24/7 dashboards and autogenerated daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports. With Amesite, businesses may gain invaluable insights that go beyond teaching and training employees. They can track employee progress and obtain insight on course corrections that work, break down analytics at multiple levels, and make data-based decisions while teaching employees with actionable, real-time analytics.

In K-12 education, Amesite's technology and focus on the user experience help solve the key challenges in K-12 learning. Stale, outdated interface design and complicated multiclick platforms can be boring and confusing for students and teachers. Amesite's social-media-inspired interface attracts and engages students. Updated content keeps education fresh and engaging, allowing instructors and students to interact with each other using upvotes and endorsements. The platform also delivers first-class communication tools with built-in video conferencing and messaging functionality and intuitive interface design.

In addition, AMST offers AI-driven, out-of-the-box scalable solutions for higher education. Universities and other higher education facilities can reduce training times often to zero minutes with intuitive interface design and transition effortlessly with full vendor support from Amesite. Amesite provides custom-branded turnkey programs on a cutting-edge learning platform.

Amesite provides universities, businesses and K-12 schools with essential tools to launch the products they need to upskill students and staff in whatever the core curriculum may be in a key trend, and it does so in a way that learning can go on at anytime, anywhere.

Empowering Learning

Amesite continues to demonstrate product excellence in creating and launching courses and programs tailored to its partners across diverse sectors. The company's new Manage feature now allows organizations to develop, establish and administer as many courses as they wish all in one place and on the same system. Manage is a category maker that empowers learning and development teams to launch with a solution for the whole company rather than a single course covering one topic or an unfamiliar new platform for existing materials. In fact, the ease of use may be unprecedented. Customers can create offerings using a "build-as-you-go, drop-and-drag" format, taking full advantage of the flexibility to customize and build as time allows. Plus, the AMST system's architecture allows for easy management as well as tracking new and existing programs without leaving the program.

Amesite's technology and passion support critical workforce goals such as high engagement, low turnover and high loyalty. It's not a tremendous surprise that AMST products deliver a remarkably high retention rate. The retention rate is an astounding 98% across all its enterprise, higher education and K-12 programs.

Amesite offers the passion, products and service that wins and keeps customers, while making a positive impact on communities worldwide.

The New Age Is Here

There was a growing movement towards digital learning long before anyone had even thought about a COVID-19 pandemic. As it unfolded, a seismic shift occurred for education and businesses to stay operational, a dramatic transition that quite possibly reshaped culture forever and certainly changed the way the world learns. A new sector seems to have developed around the new normal in education.

2U Inc. (NASDAQ: TWOU)operates under a mission to eliminate the back row in higher education, building, delivering and supporting more than 475 digital educational offerings, including undergraduate and graduate degrees, professional certificates, Trilogy-powered boot camps and GetSmarter short courses. This month, the company partneredwith the Institute for Management Development, a Swiss-based academic institution with global reach created by business executives for business executives, to expand online programs.

Stride Inc. (NYSE: LRN)is active in philanthropies with a mission centered on reimagining learning as a lifelong and deeply personal experience. The company provides innovative, high-quality, tech-enabled education solutions, curriculum and programs directly to students, schools, the military, and enterprises in primary, secondary and postsecondary settings. The company has learners in all 50 U.S. states and more than 100 countries. COVID was a boon for business, with revenue during the third quarter surging 46% year over year to reach $376.1 million.

Chegg Inc.(NYSE: CHGG)operates under the mantra of "A Smarter Way to Student(R)," striving to improve educational outcome by putting the student first. The company came into the national spotlight more than a decade ago when it acquired "Shark Tank" participant Notehall, an online marketplace where students can buy and sell class notes, ultimately incorporating it into the Chegg Homework Help site. In general, Chegg's business is all about supporting students through high school to college and into careers by helping them succeed in classes through services available online 24/7/365. Like Stride, Chegg caught investors' attention with a jump in revenue during the coronavirus economy, which resulted in raising 2021 guidance.

Pluralsight Inc.'s (NASDAQ: PS)Skills unithelps enterprises build technology skills at scale with expert-authored courses on today's most important technologies including cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data science, and security among others. The Skills product also include tools to align skill development with business objectives, virtual instructor-led training, hands-on labs, skill assessments and one-of-a-kind analytics. Flow complements Skills by providing engineering teams with actionable data and visibility into workflow patterns to accelerate the delivery of products and services.

Common threads run through what these companies, which are leaders in the new normal education sector, are doing. Technology is imperative to provide individuals, institutions and businesses the tools that they need to teach or learn on demand. As Amesite's Sastry indicated, digital education isn't going anywhere when the pandemic is a thing of the past. In fact, it is probably only going to become even more mainstream.

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IOWA CITY In a matter of weeks last March, Riley Eynon-Lynch saw use of his companys product increase by 1,000 percent.

We have an amazing technical team that could scale our infrastructure really fast, and then amazing sales and marketing teams running 10 trainings a day, said Eynon-Lynch, the CEO and one of the four co-founders of Pear Deck, an education technology company in Iowa City.

One of Pear Decks professional development events had 40,000 teachers watching. Daily training sessions had 1,000 teachers as viewers.

Its part of the Iowa City-based education-technology industrys accelerated growth since the start of coronavirus.

It became a more important part of education for a lot of teachers and schools, Eynon-Lynch said.

A 2019 report commissioned by the Iowa Economic Development Authority estimated the size of the global ed-tech market to be $57 billion. Now, its expected to be $1 trillion in the next eight years.

Its blown up because of the online learning thats occurring, said Kate Moreland, the president of Iowa City Area Development Group.

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Were going to see a lot of products as a result of this period. ... We think its an ideal time to help get our share of that market and kind of plant our flag in Iowa around it.

The best case scenario in the next five to 10 years, Moreland told The Gazette, would be for the Iowa City area to be recognized nationally and internationally as a place where learning is being advanced.

Adam Keune, co-founder of Coralville-based Higher Learning Technologies, anticipates ed-tech also filling a void for adult education as the Iowa workforces needs change.

Theres going to be a lot of people that are going to need to be retrained in a lot of industries, Keune said.

Its just the reality we live in.

The Iowa City area already has myriad educational-technology companies. Testing giant ACT, which was founded in 1959 in Iowa City, is the longest-tenured company in the area.

Leepfrog Technologies, which provides course catalog services and other software for hundreds of universities, started in 1994.

While Pearson and McGraw-Hill are not headquartered in Iowa City, they also each have a significant footprint in the Iowa City area.

The 2019 IEDA report listed the presence of ACT and other existing ed-tech companies as a benefit as the state builds its own education-technology footprint.

Eynon-Lynch sees having other education technologies in the area as a workforce benefit as well.

There are employees around that already know the space, and even if theyre looking for a switch from their current employment, they can stay in Iowa City, he said.

The University of Iowa has helped the region attract education technology companies. Adam Keune, the co-founder of Higher Learning Technologies, said working with nearby schools both at the university and K-12 levels has given HLT a sandbox for new products.

A great example is when we started with our nursing product, Keune recalled in a virtual panel hosted by ICAD Thursday. All of our products are free to University of Iowa students.

That way, he can hear feedback from both students and faculty.

Debi Durham, the director of IEDA and the Iowa Finance Authority, said she has been talking to the state Department of Education about embracing this opportunity more.

We need more cooperation from our education department, Durham told The Gazette last month.

We need to be able to work with them to solve problems proactively, but more importantly, to test some of these things. ... They need to be a partner on this, and they need to understand that all eyes could be on Iowa for this sector.

Iowa is not alone in trying to become a center for ed-tech.

The IEDA report mentions Chicago, Denver, Pittsburgh and Madison, Wis., as other places eyeing this industry.

Durham said ed-tech first caught her attention in a 2017 conversation with the previous president of ICAD and the previous chief executive officer of ACT.

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The Iowa EdTech Collaborative, a partnership between ICAD, IEDA, the New Bohemian Collaborative and other organizations, has worked to fund more ed-tech start-ups in Iowa.

Eynon-Lynch credited support from ICAD and other groups for making the Iowa City area a suitable home for Pear Deck when it started 2014.

We didnt move here for those reasons, but those were the things that made us feel like this is a good place to start a company, he recalled.

Pear Deck merged with Los Angeles-based GoGuardian in November, but Eynon-Lynch said the company plans to keep all Pear Deck operations in Iowa City.

While the switch to remote learning forced many schools to more fully embrace education technology, Eynon-Lynch is confident schools will continue using Pear Decks platform even when schools are fully reopened.

Pear Deck really helps teachers make sure theyre reaching every student, every day, Eynon-Lynch said.

We think thats going to be a value that persists, even when COVID is over.

Hes already been seeing it with schools that have resumed in-person instruction.

Their usage of Pear Deck increased at the beginning of the outbreak but didnt decrease when they went back to school, Eynon-Lynch said.

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Students in the Patton College of Education have had to overcome unforeseen challenges in completing their student teaching due to COVID-19.

Education majors are normally placed in a southeastern Ohio school district for a 16-week professional internship. However, schools have been more cautious about letting interns into their facilities in order to keep students and staff safe.

Kathleen Haskell, coordinator of professional internships in teaching, said she has experienced adjustments in placing students in student teaching positions. Haskell said she places around 200 candidates a year.

Haskell said that local districts that have taken multiple Ohio University student teachers in the past have chosen to not take any this year. Students living out of state due to COVID-19 had to complete an out-of-area petition to be able to do their student teaching elsewhere, Haskell said.

Since the pandemic, we have approved probably 10 out-of-area internships that, prior to the pandemic, we would not have because we just literally could not find them a place, Haskell said.

Haskell said some school districts that have enough vaccinations for staff will offer them to prospective student teachers, a hopeful sign for the gradual return of in-person internships.

The setbacks from the pandemic, though, have not stopped student teachers from making the best of their virtual internships.

Allie Davis, a junior studying early childhood education, is currently completing a virtual internship at The Plains Elementary School.

Despite teaching virtually, Davis is able to build relationships with her third grade students through activities like morning meetings, or through math and reading lessons in smaller breakout rooms. Davis said that while she wishes these relationships could be deeper, she still enjoys bonding with the students.

They still tell me about their lives everyday and theyre very open, even on the computer, Davis said.

In this virtual classroom, Davis faced obstacles such as getting students to pay attention when they are distracted and showing them how to use reaction commands on their computers. She said she hopes to return to a traditional classroom setting for better interaction, but mostly for the students sake.

I think that the students are going to be getting a better education in person than they would if they were sitting at home on a computer, Davis said. Thats why I really want them to go back. Its for them, not for me, because Ill get over it, but they really need to go to school.

Mya Contillo, a teacher who graduated from OU in December 2020 with a major in integrated language arts, completed a virtual internship before landing her current job teaching virtually at Belpre Elementary School.

Contillo started her professional internship teaching in person in spring 2020, but after the pandemic hit, she continued teaching online.

Learning how to teach online was a learning curve for Contillo, who said she had difficulties in creating online curriculums, teaching at a slower pace and forming relationships with students.

And I was also just disappointed that I didnt get to go into the classroom, of course she said. You learn so much just being in the field.

Ultimately, Contillo said she finds gratification in what she is able to do for her students during the pandemic.

You know, as crazy and difficult as its been for not only teachers, you have to realize, like, its 10 times harder for the students to just adapt to this learning environment, she said. I think that, as a teacher, its just made me really grateful that I do what I do, because I feel like Im bringing a sense of normalcy to the students everyday lives.

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Some schools is Los Angeles County could resume on-campus learning as early as this week with the county poised to meet a state threshold for reopening, officials said Monday evening.

On Tuesday, public health officials expect the county to reach the state threshold for reopening schools, an adjusted case rate of 25 per 100,000.

This encouraging news means that dozens of elementary schools will be permitted to reopen for in-class instruction for students grades TK-6 as early as this week, the health department wrote in a statement.

Schools will still have to submit plans outlining their safety protocols to county and state health officials to get permission to reopen.

Further information is expected to be released by public health director Barbara Ferrer in a Tuesday news briefing that will be livestreamed on KTLA.com.

Earlier Monday morning, a caravan of parents and their children descended on downtown L.A. for a demonstration demanding the immediate reopening of schools.

I want my kid to get an education, parent Susanne Jacobson told KTLA. Hes in eighth grade. Hes not ready for high school next year. He hasnt had an education in a year. Distance learning is not working.

A group called Students First Coalition of Los Angeles organized the car rally outside the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration building, where the L.A. County Board of Supervisors has its office. Participants honked and held posters with messages including, Our kids deserve better. Another poster read, Let me go back to school!

Some protesters emphasized the prolonged closures toll on childrens mental health.

Its actually not OK, kids could get mental breakdowns, I hear some kids get depression from it, said Brody Moos, a fourth-grader.

Remy Moos, whos in third-grade, complained of the discomfort of online school.

My eyes are on the screen too much, and it kind of hurts my brain, the student said.

Coalition leaders spoke to reporters during the rally outside the building.

We represent hundreds, if not thousands of schools here in Los Angeles County who have prepared to reopen our schools safely. And we want the opportunity to open our schools now, said Tom Konjoyan, whos head of the Village Christian School in Sun Valley and founded the coalition.

Earlier this month, the group penned an open letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom saying the states phased reopening framework cannot stand, and that all schools should with proper and appropriate mitigation strategies in place be permitted to open immediately.

According to the group, the missive as of Monday afternoon has been signed by more than 1,600 parents, 82 medical practitioners, 145 private school staffers, 42 private school administrators, 28 public school staffers and one public school administrator.

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner has also pushed for the state to make reopening schools a priority. On Monday morning, he announced the districts first COVID-19 vaccine site for eligible employees. Beutner again asserted that vaccinating all school workers is key.

A clearly articulated plan to provide vaccinations to school staff in the nations second largest school district, combined with the leadership Los Angeles Unified has already shown in preparing its campuses, can be a model for other school districts across the country, Beutner said.

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Antonio Ornelas-Velazquez, 38, was arrested Saturday and charged with involuntary manslaughter and unlawfully causing a fire resulting in great bodily injury, according to a spokesperson with the Riverside County district attorneys office. After posting $75,000 bond, Ornelas-Velazquez was released Sunday, according to jail records.

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Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who fled the scene after two vehicles collided, sending one of them into a home in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of South Los Angeles Monday night.

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One of the first federally operated coronavirus vaccination site in the state and in the country opened Tuesday at California State University, Los Angeles.

The center, which will operate seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., will have the the capacity to inoculate about 6,000 people daily. Vaccinations are by appointment only and reservations can be made through the state's MyTurn system.

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We developed and modified our home study courses, which are traditionally in-person for the first class for firearm handling and North Dakota-specific content, said Brian Schaffer, the department's hunter education coordinator, explaining how the transition evolved. We were able to include that in our online learning. Students were able to complete the 10 to 13 hours of online instruction at home and then finish later. To meet the requirements and not compromise safety, the department offered over 100 in-person testing opportunities across the state, which included the written and practical exam.

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Most years, over 4,000 students attend and complete North Dakota hunter education training, and even in the pandemic year, more than 3,500 students successfully completed the required coursework, training and testing. It was a monumental task put together in a matter of weeks to meet the needs of North Dakota hunters.

In 2021, a combination of some of the traditional courses continues with the new available technology and instruction.

What hasnt changed is the window of opportunity.

The vast majority of our courses are offered from January through about the end of May, as most of our volunteers have some off time during the winter months to teach hunter education, Schaffer said. Also, our deer lottery is held in June. So, if you are required to have it this year, we recommend you try and find a course before the end of the school year and the deer application deadline.

Game and Fish and volunteer instructors continue to adjust while also looking to expand traditional courses and start offering some more courses year-round.

Understand while larger communities may have several classes to pick and choose possible dates and times to work within a schedule, many North Dakota towns may have one each year, so even if its not the best timing, it might be the only option until next year.

The most effective way to find out when the next course is in your area is to sign up for email and text alerts on the Game and Fish Departments website at gf.nd.gov.

Schaffer points out new volunteers can help provide these classes for your area.

For the last 40-plus years, our hunter education program has been led by our volunteer instructors across the state, he said. And as any organization can see in recent years, we're always looking for more volunteers and more people that are willing to share their knowledge and their passion for the resource and to pass that on to the next generation of hunters here in North Dakota.

Simply put, if you, your son, daughter, neighbor or grandchildren need hunter education and you're unsure of class availability, become a volunteer instructor and help pass along the hunting legacy and heritage to the next generation.

Leier is an outreach biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Reach him at dleier@nd.gov.

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According to a new report by Kaspersky, the educational sector continues to attract the attention of cybercriminals on the Internet, during the time of Covid-19.It has been mentioned that 270,171 users encountered various threats disguised as popular learning platforms during July to December 2020. This is said to be a 60% increase as compared to the first half of last year.

Also mentioned is that from January to June last year, the total number of users that encountered various threats in the form of popular online learning platforms/video conferencing applications was 168,550. That was a staggering 20,455% increase when compared to the same period for 2019.

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Kaspersky adds that this number has continued to grow from July to December. As of January 2021, the number of users encountering similar threats reached 270,17. As per the report, this was a 60% increase when compared to the first half of 2020.

Talking more about the online threats in the education sector, the report states that Zoom was the most popular software to lure users. This is understandable considering it is also one of the most used applications around the world. Zoom was followed by Moodle and Google Meet. While the number of users that encountered threats increased for all, the number stayed almost the same for Google Classroom.

Furthermore, around 98% of the threats encountered were not-a-virus, which is divided into riskware and adware. Users often faced threats disguised as popular video meeting apps and online course platforms through fake application installers.

However, the software security firm has given some tips on how to avoid this.

-Do not download any unofficial versions or modifications of these applications/platforms. Look for information about the developer and choose the official app stores.

-Use different, strong passwords for each of your accounts. You can also use password managers that also give you suggestions.

-Always make sure you are on the official company website before proceeding to download anything to your device. Fake websites may look just like the real thing, so you should always double-check the URL format and spelling of the company name before you download anything.

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One of the mantras to emerge successful through an online learning platform is to create a study space and staying committed to it. This must sound very simple and basic, but the implications are far more serious and meaningful if taken in the right sense and spirit.

The youth of today, especially college students, must have come to terms with the online method of learning by now since the institutions have been shut since March 2020 due to the pandemic. Even if they are slowly getting back to normal, it is an open secret that the online method of instruction and teaching is going to be a mainstay in the higher education scenario for the days to come.

This has literally transformed the teaching and learning environment from the institutional point of view. But has it really transformed the individuals is the million-dollar question.

It must be mentioned here that we are clearly able to see that many students are yet to get comfortable with the online method of education.

Though there may be many reasons for the same, one common factor that can be attributed is that they would have probably not been able to create adequate space for online learning. They might suffer from acceptance of the same and would have almost developed an aversion to it as well, which would be the reason for their abysmal performance.

It is important to create a mental note that online education is now the actual education and that it is no way inferior to the regular form of education, which you might have been so far used to. There would certainly be some issues, but when determined, everything is possible.

You have to frame your success within your own mind before you actually achieve it. This is an internal drive that could trigger your actions towards the same. Creating a space for online learning is something akin to it. The time that you spend on your online education must be justified professionally if you are to succeed in a professional career space.

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With the provincewide implementation of Alert Level 5, all schools in Newfoundland and Labrador are now readjusting to virtual classrooms.

Meanwhile, the provincial government's efforts to provide Chromebooks to all students in grades 7-12 hit a snag that's beyond its control, the education minister, says.

Thus far, the province has 2,000 of the 30,000 Chromebooks ordered last July for students in grades 7-12, and expects to have a further 10,000 "within the next week or two," Tom Osborne said Monday.

More than 5,000 laptops were distributed to teachers earlier in the school year.

"As more shipments come in, we will continue to distribute them," Osborne said. "We anticipated delivery of Chromebooks last year. However, the reality is national and global demand is far outstripping availability of both devices and components."

Osborne said the order made last July was the third largest of any jurisdiction in the country, and the province currently has enough to meet the needs of every student in grades 7-12 who previously indicated they did not have a device to gain access to online learning.

Newfoundland and Labrador English School District (NLESD) CEO Tony Stack said the manufacturer Lenovo expects to provide "an additional couple of hundred" before the end of this month, 4,000 by mid-March and 7,000 by the end of March. In total, the province should have approximately 23,000 by the beginning of April. Stack said the remainder will come before the end of the school year. He cited a global shortage of microprocessors as the main factor delaying receipt of the full order of Chromebooks.

Osborne encouraged parents with connectivity or device issues to contact school administrators. He said those administrators will work with the parents and the district to find solutions.

Stack said he is aware of new requests coming from people not identified in the first two rounds of surveying that took place since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We're asking people only to identify if they absolutely need a device on the basis of need," Stack said.

The NLESD has emphasized the fact students can use any number of devices, including cellphones, tablets and laptops, and not just Chromebooks, to access Google Classroom and Google Meets.

On connectivity, Stack said the NLESD determined approximately three to five per cent of the provincial student population lacked a reliable internet connection at home as of last spring. In May, it distributed MiFi devices that function as a wireless hotspot, allowing those students to connect to the internet through cellular service.

As of Monday, all schools in the St. John's metro area were already learning online, with others across the province expected to start throughout the week.

Stack noted teachers are being encouraged to work from home under Alert Level 5, though some can choose to do so from the school if the home environment is not an option for handling online classes.

One change Stack brought up concerned students with complex needs who work with instructional resource teachers. In the event of classroom activities being moved online during the pandemic, the initial plan was to continue to allow those students into the school to learn with their teachers. He said that won't happen this week and may not happen next week, either, but parents will be contacted later this week to discuss virtual learning.

"We want to confirm that the health and safety measures, such as the nature of the masks and different protocols, are confirmed by (public health officials) before we bring any student into a building, or any teacher who has an interaction with a student in the building," Stack said.

"We want to make sure that the appropriate medical health advice is being followed. That needs to be confirmed, and that's going to take a few days. We understand, having worked around the clock with health, that they are intensely busy right now in dealing with the issue of the pandemic itself. Those questions need to be clarified in order for us to confirm that things are safe to proceed."

Stack said the NLESD has been in constant contact with the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association (NLTA), particularly since news broke in the province of the presence of a more contagious variant of COVID-19. The recent uptick in cases is largely tied to a cluster that spread in Mount Pearl Senior High.

"We've also tweaked some of our correspondence and procedures based on (NLTA) input," Stack said. "We've had good dialogue there."

The NLTA issued a news release Monday, voicing its approval for suspending in-school instruction. It said when schools reopen, enhanced protections need to be considered in light of the new variant of COVID-19. NLTA president Dean Ingram said teachers need to be prioritized in Phase 2 of the provincial vaccination plan.

Stack said the NLESD is prepared for online teaching to continue for as long as it's deemed necessary, but the preferable outcome remains to eventually get back into classrooms safely. That, he added, is entirely contingent on what happens with the pandemic and the advice the NLESD gets from public health officials.

Osborne alluded to the fact lessons were learned following the experience last spring with online teaching, and Stack later elaborated on that.

"Before the year started, we did a number of health and safety protocols with teachers, but also quite a bit of professional learning around virtual learning," he said. "Later in the fall, we put out an ask to teachers if you're still feeling you need something additional, please let us know. There were some 2,000 teachers that wanted a bit more training, so we organized release time for them and conducted that professional learning.

"Teachers have been really good at stepping up. A lot of online resources were made available that they accessed on their own. If there's still some out there that require additional learning and look, we're always learning then all they have to do is identify what those learning needs are, and we will address them. But we're a long ways ahead from where we were last spring. Leaps and bounds."

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