Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on E-learning Student’s Dropout Levels During Cybersecurity Programs: A Case Study

Abstract

As the COVID-19 pandemic shakes the human society, most fields had to adapt to online systems in order to keep operating. Such is the case of the Education field, where e-learning became the main (and sometimes the only) tool available to ensure that teaching activities could continue. This work analyzes the case of a cybersecurity program taught online in Chile from 2019 to this day. The available data allowed us to observe some of the impacts that the pandemic had on the student’s dropout levels, highlighting some difference between the early months of the pandemic, versus later periods in time.