COVID-19 pandemic: Virtual technology applied to higher education at CU UAEM Valle de México and Ecatepec

Abstract

One of the most important challenges in the education system are the technological advances in the educational models at a higher education, achieving a transformation of the student's thinking, in an approach of analysis and innovative construction based on interdisciplinary processes and creativity. The Autonomous University of the State of Mexico is aware that its teachers must have a comprehensive training in communication and creativity with a social and humanistic commitment with transcendence of technological research. Due to COVID-19, pandemic caused by an infectious virus that produced a total closure of educational facilities, in which the only teaching alternative is online, this technology has been integrated by necessity to the educational system with a different pedagogical approach, which has been questioned by the type of knowledge acquired by students. Finally, this research awareness among the teachers of Valle de México and Ecatepec that they must face the challenges in the use of virtual technology.