Educación virtual en la universidad en tiempos de Covid-19

Abstract

With the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is going through sudden changes, the population had to isolate itself and education had to move from face-to-face to virtuality. This abrupt transition and the subsequent adaptation to the new system have brought many difficulties to the students, understanding this problem is the objective of this research, because this new information that is generated serves to improve the virtual teaching and learning processes. Research has a quantitative approach, the technique used was the survey and as an instrument a structured questionnaire applied to 176 university students from a teacher training career. It was found that students have difficulties with connectivity and are experiencing financial problems; for their studies, they attend an average of 11.6 hours of virtual classes a week and dedicate 15.7 hours a week to developing their homework. They consider that virtual classes are not enough and should complement their studies with autonomous learning. Teachers and students are constantly improving their teaching and learning processes in the virtual mode, with this research we want to know how things happen in this atypical time of a pandemic.