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Education information system in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic

As a result of the health crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world’s governments chose to temporarily suspend in-person classes. To provide continuity to the learning process, the region’s countries launched plans and programs that at first aimed to implement remote learning strategies and, later, to plan the return to in-person classes.
Los sistemas de información educativa frente a la pandemia de COVID-19
UNESCO Office Santiago and Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
2021
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This planning has increased demand for educational information in quantity, frequency and depth. Educational information systems have been forced to produce new data while meeting the traditional information needs within this unprecedented context. This document looks to present some keys to understanding how educational information systems responded to the needs imposed by the pandemic.