NEW YORK, July 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Wix.com, Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), the global leader in website
creation, announced today the results of a first-of-its-kind
project independently initiated by the Philippines Department of
Education under Philippine's "Digital Rise Program" that will bring
e-learning curriculums to back-to-school programs starting in
August.
"With COVID-19 restrictions in place, small businesses,
entrepreneurs, and schools across the world experienced
unprecedented transitions to operating exclusively online. This
disruption was particularly devastating for schools, which had to
pivot to full-time remote learning with little time to prepare,"
said Dror Shaked, Senior Vice President at Wix. "In May 2020, amid the pandemic, tens of thousands of
teachers and schools came together with a joint mission -- to bring
the Philippines education system
online -- and in only two days, 43,000 e-learning sites were
created for schools to make available digital curricula online,"
said Shaked.
As part of the growing movement to digitize schools, the Digital
Rise Program will facilitate the transition to e-learning for the
local schools and provide them with step-by-step support. This
coordination will exclusively be handled by teachers and schools.
Students will be able to access all of the e-learning content
without having to log in and will only be able to consult the
e-learning content available on the Wix websites.
To make this vision possible, all volunteers have been trained
on their own platform by the education department and have created
43,000 sites for schools in the
Philippines. These volunteers have set a standard for
success, not only for the Philippines Department of Education, but
also for other developing countries who are looking to improve
their e-learning education curricula in the years to come.
"We are excited about this first-of-its kind digital education
initiative for the Philippines Education Department because it
sparks empowerment for all learners," said Abram Abanil, ICTS
Director. "A regular teacher has been able to create their site on
Wix with zero coding experience in order to make their digital
curriculum accessible. This is the future of education, and we are
thrilled to provide access to educational content through Wix's
generous resources," said Abanil.
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