Handbook on Facilitating Flexible Learning During Educational Disruption: The Chinese Experience in Maintaining Undisrupted Learning in COVID-19 Outbreak

This paper is an in-depth review of the Handbook on Facilitating Flexible Learning During Educational Disruption: The Chinese Experience in Maintaining Undisrupted Learning in COVID-19 Outbreak Aiming to investigate to what extent this handbook can contribute to the teaching and learning of countries suffering from the pandemic, this paper analyzes the goal and strategies of flexible learning, which are presented in the handbook It is concluded that the handbook provided comprehensive knowledge and practical strategies for educators and parents to facilitate learning beyond the restrictions of space and time, and that the handbook demonstrated clear criteria for educators to choose educational tools and resources in order to implement flexible learning Based on these findings, it is suggested that all stakeholders should consider flexible learning from six aspects: infrastructure, learning tools, learning resources, teaching and learning methods, services for teachers and students, and cooperation between schools, governments, and enterprises To further strengthen the adaptability of flexible learning, future researches on this subject should pay more attention to the adaption of flexible learning in culturally and politically different context, the assessment and evaluation of learning experiences and outcomes of flexible learning, and teachers' competency building in the era of flexible learning