SC e-Resilience in Education Systems

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4) aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning for all. The Target 4.4 of the SDG-4 plans to substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship by 2030. However, there has been an obligatory paradigm shift in the global education system since the outbreak of Covid-19 to a blended mode of learning. It has also highlighted the need of an e-resilient education system to cater the need of digital education. During COVID-19, the majority of learners around the world were seen to not have access to adequate technology for learning. For those who have had access to technology and devices, education delivery was not effective due to lack of digital skills in educators and learners. For those with internet access and digital skills, challenges of online exploitation, violence, and exposure to harmful content is felt. In such a scenario, in order to achieve SDG 4, adoption of holistic e-resilience by design is needed to help ensure that education is inclusive and fit for the future. This subcommittee focuses on deepening our understanding of e-resilience in the education system as a whole, and the drivers and challenges for the stakeholders by developing frameworks, guidelines, and standards on digital education. We are open to develop pilot studies with other interested institutions to create a holistic multi-dimensional framework for e-resilient education systems.