Abstract:
The Covid-19 pandemic is still far from over, and there is no doubt that educational sciences will analyse this sudden global shift of teaching and learning online for many years to come. Yet this collection makes a unique and important contribution to all future analyses, because it presents real-life testimonies of people’s struggles and feelings experienced at the very beginning of the first wave of the sudden shift online. These testimonies could have been collected only at that specific moment in time; all later analyses will inevitably depend on various forms of individual and collective memory such as Internet sources and personal recollections. This article is therefore a valuable historical document, which provides important insights into a crucial moment in the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the testimonies provide highly relevant and non-replicable inputs for researchers, policy-makers, governments, and everyone else interested in the present and future of global education.