class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # Attention Towards Distance Education Tools During COVID-19 Pandemic ## Evidence from Google Trends ### <span style="color:#06c280"></br>OWSD 6th General Assembly and International Conference</span> </br></br><span style="color:#f2cb07">OWSD members’ responses to COVID 19</span> ### <span style="color:#06c280">09/11/2021</span> --- class: top, center <img src="fig/authors.png" width="80%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> .pull-left[ Priyanga Dilini Talagala OWSD Early Career Fellow, 2020 <i class="fas fa-globe "></i> prital.netlify.app <i class="fab fa-github "></i><i class="fab fa-twitter "></i> pridiltal <!--PhD in Statistics, Monash University, Australia Senior Lecturer </br> Department of Computational Mathematics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka--> ].pull-right[ Thiyanga S. Talagala OWSD member <i class="fas fa-globe "></i> thiyanga.netlify.app <i class="fab fa-github "></i><i class="fab fa-twitter "></i> thiyangt <!--PhD in Statistics, Monash University, Australia Senior Lecturer </br> Department of Statistics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka--> ] --- .pull-left[ ### Global tracking of COVID-19 caused school closures and re-openings <img src="OWSD_talk_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-6-1.png" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> ].pull-right[ <img src="OWSD_talk_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-7-1.png" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> ] --- background-image:url('fig/chalkboard.png') background-position: 50% 50% background-size: cover class: center, top # <span style="color:black">From chalk-talk to <span style="color:blue"> virtual walk</span> --- background-image:url('fig/UNESCO.png') background-position: 50% 50% background-size: cover class: center, top #### </br></br>Link: https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse/solutions --- ### Google trends footprint analysis of distance learning solutions <img src="OWSD_talk_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-8-1.png" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- background-image:url('fig/googletrend1.png') background-position: 50% 50% background-size: 80% class: center, top --- background-image:url('fig/UNgoal4.png') background-position: 50% 50% background-size: cover class: center, top <!-- inclusive and quality education enables upward socioeconomic mobility and is a key to escaping poverty. which has a direct impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (ODS) of the UN, inclusive and quality education is essential to sustainable development and a key UN sustainable development goal-->