A panel discussion on the second day of the ‘Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined Series; Part II’ by World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) examined the new avenues of education, emerging out of the Covid-19 pandemic scenario. 
The online forum held in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar and HolonIQ, discussed the topic ‘Future-proofing learning ecosystems’ where the participants highlighted the big need for solidarity and interdependence to overcome the challenges. They also highlighted that it needs multi-level stakeholder participation in both the online and material space, without creating silos of information and resources.
Moderated by Danilo Padilla, education specialist, Unesco, the panellists included Fatma al-Remaihi, CEO, Doha Film Institute; Rosie Clayton, co-founder, Weaving Lab, UK; and Akshay Chaturvedi, founder & CEO, Leverage Edu, India.
“Technology has been a main enabler during these days and online classes made good of the lost time. We also need to understand there must be more collaboration and co-operation to take the situation forward and ensure a better learning ecosystem for the students,” noted Clayton. 
According to al-Remaihi, the crisis has turned out to be an opportunity for creative industries by learning new things. She explained, “We have adopted new ways of working by getting equipped with new tools and using digital platforms. The entire Qumra Festival was done online and all the mentoring sessions and other programmes were done in a new way very effectively.”
Chaturvedi pointed out that these are interesting times for education and ‘the big need of the time is solidarity’. “We need inter-dependence to tide over the crisis. Only then, we can make use of the existing tools effectively and everything can be put together diligently,” he noted.
However, he argued that the world of education must look for new areas. 
“Many of these tools were in existence for some time and we could effectively make use of them during this crisis period. There should be new and more such tools with grounded structure which might take a while to be materialised,” he added.