Análisis del rol del docente universitario a partir de una crisis sanitaria: el proceso de una resignificación de lo presencial a lo virtual

The present investigation analyzes the role of the teacher, in the context of higher education, considering the changes occurred by the contingency of the Covid-19 disease, which forced to continue the educational process virtually throughout the world. The context of the study is circumscribed in two Latin American public universities located in Mexico and Costa Rica; The research is developed from the methodology of the grounded theory, integrating in-depth interview as a technique for collecting information. The data analysis is based on the constant comparative method, considering the first moment as descriptive, which allows open coding and the second, relational, which allows selective and axial coding, generating a coding matrix. The main findings seek to explain the role of the teacher in trying to respond to the urgent measures of educational institutions, in which the teacher must be framed in the educational process from a total virtuality for the development of content.