Teacher’s perspective in a challenging pandemic scenario

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the higher education teachers’ perspectives facing the necessity to adopt a full online learning methodology brought by COVID-19 pandemic situation. For this, we carried out a quantitative study by means of an online survey of teachers at the University of Valladolid, belonging to different categories and areas of knowledge. The aspects dealt with were, a) the tools used for teaching and evaluation, b) the perception of the teacher's previous preparation, c) the personal assessment of the work carried out, and d) the limitations observed in the development of teaching activity. The main conclusions include the high number of teachers who had never taught online, the feeling of unease when faced with an unknown scenario, the excessive stress derived from the need to transfer teaching to an unknown scenario, the excessive use of transmission of contents via virtual campus, the perception of ICT as mere assistants of the teaching-learning process or the excessive concern for plagiarism linked to the evaluation via exam.