Every crisis presents new challenges and offers new opportunities for innovation but we  need to face the facts: all of the world’s sectors are going digital and Uganda is also heading down the digital path and the COVID-19 Pandemic has presented the first real test of adopting e-learning systems at different levels of education across the nation. 

This raises questions that we all need to address:

1. What access to technology does each student have from home?
2. What support systems exist at home?
3. What are the learning advantages and gaps that are revealed by this environment?
4. What distractions impact their learning?

What we’re experiencing in this shift is the inevitable and it is time to embrace the use of technology to engage our students in new ways. Technology has advanced and their various platforms like video conferencing and other e-learning resources on the market.