Virtual platforms in higher education during the pandemic in Ecuador

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the virtual platforms in Higher Education in times of pandemic in Ecuador, with higher education being one of the sectors within the groups of the fragile area that was exposed to the disease of the COVID -19 pandemic. The methodology used in its approach is qualitative with a non-experimental design of a cross-sectional nature that had an exploratory scope under the analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive method; the instruments used as a strategy is the use of documentary and bibliographic research. It was determined that the use of virtual platforms in Higher Education is indeed among the groups that will have, according to the projections analyzed, one of the greatest effects on the teaching-learning process of students' online classes after the COVID-19 pandemic. As a relevant conclusion, it is determined that the use of virtual platforms fundamentally helped the educational training process in the transmission of knowledge. Therefore, it is recommended that the higher education community make use of information and communication technologies for the teaching and learning process.