What has/have your government/school/college/teachers done to keep education flowing during this pandemic?
Admittedly keep education flowing is some corporate language. The only people who care about education are left-wing politicians and the actual teachers, neither of which matter now.
Anyway, my state government is broadcasting classes with 3 subjects from around 2PM to 4-4:20PM. The last subject of the day (3:30PM until the end) is only broadcast on the app they made and their YouTube channel unfortunately. All the classes are uploaded onto YouTube for posterity.
The app they made is mainly a chat, later limited to 15 messages as an attempt to stop copy-pasting from flooding the few meaningful/serious answers (it is a live chat with 20k people in it simultaneously so good riddance), to little avail IIRC. (IIRC because I watch by TV because my battery is limited and the screen is too small to actually copy to a textbook)
The quality is kinda mediocre but nothing bad enough usually. One time it was a 4:3 480p clip with interlacing, which is based until you start caring.
They are also sending us "handouts" (apostilas, PT-BR to English) and the normal state tests every bimester.
As for the teachers, they have sent us pretty much the full student workload via Google PDFs on WhatsApp, which is the opposite of private, but privacy is hardly possible when you're Brazilian and likely don't even have an up-to-date (defined as less than 5 years old LMAO ) PC. They haven't done any zoom/meet chats to teach us stuff however, since that's kind of the purpose of the TV/YouTube broadcast.
In Turkey, education stopped after first virus detection. 1 or 2 week later Ministry of education create 3 television channel named EBA TV for elementery, middle and high schools. (https://imgur.com/a/KWF8Tfj) That channels broadcast the lessons for 09:00 AM to 09:30 PM for three replay. And that system supported with EBA web platform. A social-educational web site for schools. Platform not new, but became popular in lockdown. Class and teacher stayed in conversation for projects, questions or homeworks. (I took some reports some teachers create whatsapp groups, but goverment provide EBA platform for organisation) (https://imgur.com/PjQJDwO)
Many students watched EBA TV and visit EBA. But that lessons will be taught in real schools too after corona (I hope this year). For this reason "lazy" students break conservation with teacher and start holiday early.
Private schools usualy do their care. Many teachers went school for give a lesson with ZOOM. They took live videos for students. I don't know because private not popular so. Private courses more popular and they usually use same system as private schools.
For my life, most important change is on university exam. (This exam very important for turkish students, because it nearly determine students life) I cant pass that exam last year and i decided try again in this year. But corona happened ! Education interupted and exam dont include second semester. I took exam from Math and science category. And too many important subjects are gone because education stop. We had a funny and very easy exam in corona environment and social distance. And I failed again. Because this exam cares about ranking. Not cares score. My score is better than last year, but everbody did very well this easy exam and my ranking dropped to 65.000~ thats not good rank for a good university.
At start of new education season, nobody know what happens for goverment schools and universities. Cases are incresing in Turkey. Private education courses started this week for "compensatory education" at the their physical buildings. Wearing mask not forced in class, but necesary in corridors and other areas.
I joined only recently, but the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan has been doing a ton of work to help teachers adapt their courses to online formats. This is on top of the already fairly sizable amount of work they've done over the past few years generating Massive Online Courses over the past few years.
I don't know how things are from a student's perspective. But our government is also doing things similar to yours, they broadcast classes through state owned channel (also uploads it on youtube), they have timing arrangement for each grades. But they only teach one subject a day, teachers are directed to clear doubts and check homeworks of their student. Teachers can use any method for communication most of them use WhatsApp.
Recently due to the flooding and landslides new classes are not broadcasted.