Saturday, 05 September 2020_As schools are about to reopen across Iran, the choice between in-person or online education is still a tough trade-off among many families amid the coronavirus pandemic. Iran’s education ministry put the final word on it; distance learning will this year be the dominating method. But how? Iran’s education minister introduced the upgraded version of a teaching application called Shad, which is supposed to be a virtual classroom for all Iranian students.