Abstract

GUILBAUTH, José  and  P. DE GUILBAUTH, Itzel. Virtual classrooms as tools learning facilitators during confinement by covid-19 UDELAS. Horizontes Rev. Inv. Cs. Edu. [online]. 2020, vol.4, n.16, pp.439-449. ISSN 2616-7964.

Abstract The objective of the research was to identify the type of technological tools, forms of communication and development of virtual classrooms used in classes of the Bachelor's Degree in Early Stimulation and Family Orientation, the Bachelor's Degree in Special Education, the Bachelor's Degree in Teaching in English and the Bachelor's Degree in Educational Informatics in the Faculty of Special Education and Pedagogy of the Specialized University of the Américas, Panamá, during the first semester of the Academic Year 2020. Based on the descriptive method and with the support of the survey technique, competencies, activities and tools possessed by teachers were identified and students when facing virtual university training. The results determined that as a result of a sudden decisión in the change from face-to-face to virtual teaching modality, a product of COVID 19, unplanned responses were presented, but permissible for the didactic act to occur smoothly and continuously in university education.

Keywords : Higher Education; long distance education; Technological tools; virtual classrooms; subjects.

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