Editorial – Volume 23 Issue 4

Welcome to the final issue of the year. The last two years have seen an unprecedented worldwide scramble and experimentation with alternative approaches to formal schooling and higher education. Consequently, IRRODL has been including articles reflecting the educational community’s response to the pandemic. The fallout from the COVID-19 disruption, as well as how this will influence future approaches to teaching, are certainly on the collective conscious of educators everywhere. It is therefore no surprise that we open this issue with Impact of COVID-19 on Formal Education: An International Review of Practices and Potentials of Open Education at a Distance from a global group of almost 20 authors (Stracke, Sharma, Bozkurt, et al.) that highlights and analyzes practices and case studies from 13 countries providing insights on effective and innovative strategies.