Albania, Kosovo with joint digital educational platform

This platform will be electronic, with all videos shot by Kosovo teachers and Albania.

The same is envisioned for students from first to 12th grade.

Minister of Education and Science Rame Likaj and Albanian Minister of Education, Sports and Youth Besa Sahini today presented the joint digital educational platform, which will serve to improve the quality of education.

Sahin said that in addition to the video shot, this platform allows for the part of class learning in digital format.

The teachers will have the opportunity to create the virtual class, it's more or less like Google class room, already in Albanian. Teacher publishes lessons, publishes questions, quizs. Except for the videos that exist, where different lectures are shot and the student can be followed. The part of class learning can develop, but in this digital format. The good news of this is that we will have the opportunity from Albania to see lectures taken in Kosovo by the best teachers. You'll also see the lessons taken in Albania, the curriculum is shared and this exchange of teaching methodology will lead to improved quality of education”.

She stressed that this platform covers the class from 1 to 12 and that even teaching children with special needs has been considered, in which the function will apply to starting teaching on September 14th.

The first education in Albania added that several schools have opened in Albania, but that the new school year will begin on 14 September.

We are aware that opening schools will increase the transmission of the virus slightly more. And that's not what we're saying, but we've seen it from other countries reopen schools. Germany, France have cases that are closing individual schools, or individual classes. And while it is of high national interest to open schools and return to school banks, this is possible only if we manage to prepare all this support platform under house conditions. Whether we should close a school or a class we thought students should stay out of school, but continue teaching under conditions of”.

Meanwhile, Education and Science Minister Rame Likaj said the agreement is prepared in the framework of co-operation between the two Kosovo-Albanian ministries.

Likaj said the country is ahead of a challenge to organise learning in pandemic conditions.

Today's “Co-operation and the agreement we have prepared today is in the context of multi-year co-operation, which the Ministry of Education and Science of Kosovo and Albania has. Under this agreement, the use of a common remote learning platform, which the Albanian Ministry of Education gives free access to the Kosovo Ministry of Education, but also on our platform, we will make it available to the Albanian Ministry of Education. We also talked about other concrete agreements, especially on textbooks, curriculums, and other fields”.

He stressed that they have had meetings with the College of Municipal Education Directors and have visited Kosovo's 30 municipalities to see preparations for the start of the new school year.

Likaj added their overwhelming part met the criteria for starting learning.

A decision is prepared for me to sign. But we're waiting. Today is the government's meeting, but also final recommendation from the inter-ministerial task force in terms of COVID. We believe that tomorrow we will come up with a final decision and we are convinced that the vast part of schools in Kosovo meet the conditions for the new school year to begin on 14th in school facilities”.

In cases of contracting COVID-19 in schools, Likaj announced it is becoming online learning platforms. He has stressed that in the event of the teacher's infection, they will work with complementary clocks.