Abstract: Education and Information Technologies (EAIT) is the official journal of the Technical Committee on Education (TC3) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).It covers the complex relationships between information and communication technologies and education, from the micro of specific applications or instances of use in classrooms to macro concerns of national policies and major projects; from classes of 5 year olds to adults in tertiary institutions; from teachers and administrators, to researchers and designers; from institutions to open, distance and lifelong learning.The journal's breadth of coverage allows EAIT to examine fundamental issues at all levels, discuss specific instances and cases, draw inference and probe theory.This journal is embedded in the research and practice of professionals.The COVID-19 pandemic and lock-down has had a profound effect on education around the world with many schools and universities offering only online teaching for many months.The EAIT Editorial Board, however, was concerned not to publish the sort of descriptive or conceptual articles found in newspapers.They believed that sufficient time was needed for identification and research of all the factors that the COVID-19 crisis might have introduced into education.Ideas need to be reinforced by experimental practice to analyse and validate.Formal and well-founded research studies are needed and to this end EAIT is offering a Special Issue on Education, IT and the COVID-19 Pandemic (deadline for