The Covid-19 pandemic has raised significant challenges as well as opportunities for the higher education community worldwide to learn and explore. The shifting from traditional face-to-face education to online was not an easy journey for many institutions across the world – a bunch of changes in terms of digital competencies, pedagogical knowledge, psychosocial counselling, varied levels of interaction, engagement and assessment strategies, support structures, etc. were required to be adopted in the institutional policies and practices. Now at the post-Covid stage should we go back to the traditional face-to-face education leaving all these remarkable shifts or changes behind? What should be our strategies at the post-Covid education system in Digital Bangladesh? Although digital education is a common topic nowadays that can encompass a wide spectrum of practices, ‘phygital education’ (a blend of physical and digital education) is gaining popularity in recent times. Bangladesh is yet to mark its presence in the global online education industry in terms of formal online program offerings, which could be the third biggest source of earning revenues after remittance and garment industry, if this sector is given due importance and carefully visioned straightaway. Therefore, what should be our policy to encourage and facilitate prominent public and private universities having years of expertise in blended and online education to excel in today’s transnational education system as a brand of Education Bangladesh?

The International Phygital Education Summit - iPES 2021 is a landmark towards this direction. It’s a gathering of students, teachers, practitioners, and policy makers from different parts of the world and will put emphasis on the teaching and learning practices as well as the formation of online education policy at the New Normal context in the post-Covid era. The events and activities include innovative teaching-learning practices, experience sharing, student voice, expert panel discussions, and workshops.