| I. By nature of impact |
| Negative effects |
Positive effects |
| - Closing educational institutions for in-person classes;- Uncertainty in the current situation for all educational agents;- Threat to suspend learning for an indefinite period; |
- Access to digital technologies and Internet connection in remote areas to provide distance learning;- Mass innovations in the field of education; |
| II. By scale (rate) |
| Local effects |
Regional effects |
Global effects |
| - Implications for a specific educational institution (school, college, institute, university, etc.); |
- Implications for a particular territorial unit (village, city, district, oblast, region, country); |
- Implications for the global community; |
| III. By speed of development |
| Rapidly developing |
Fast developing |
| - Closure of educational institutions;- Distance learning;- Mastering new means of communication by educational agents; |
- Digitalization of education;- Provision of remote regions with information and telecommunication technologies;- Reduced knowledge gained during the pandemic; |
| IV. By type |
| Economic |
Political and legal |
Socio-demographic |
Scientific and technological |
| - Reduced student cohort (fee-based programs) due to a decrease in the income of students’ families;- Increased costs of educational institutions for distance learning (servers, hardware, etc.);- Higher demand for technical means of communication for training purposes; |
- Changes to the educational regulatory framework initiated by national governments;- Restrictions on access to education for foreign students (closed borders); |
- Higher demand among applicants for medical degrees due to greater prestige of medical professions;- Lack of access to distance learning tools in low-income families; - Age restrictions on the use of distance learning;- Inability to study in some specialties that require face-to-face attendance; |
- Improvement of distance learning;;- Increasing digital literacy of the population;- Need to update technical training means; |
| V. By severity |
| Very acute (catastrophic, crisis) |
Acute (critical) |
Moderately acute (tense, conflict) |
| - Low literacy of the population;- Lower skills in all jobs; |
- Decline in literacy rates;- Decline in qualifications in a number of professions; |
- Likelihood of declined literacy;- Likelihood of declined skills in some professions; |
