Abstract

CHAVEZ REINOSO, Jorge Patricio; CHAVEZ GUEVARAZ, Jorge Ernesto; FLORES ANDINO, Víctor Manuel  and  GUAYANLEMA CHAVEZ, Ivonne Gabriela. Virtual education in the time of Covid-19: perspective of higher-level learners. Horizontes Rev. Inv. Cs. Edu. [online]. 2021, vol.5, n.17, pp.59-76.  Epub Mar 30, 2021. ISSN L:2616-7964.  https://doi.org/10.33996/revistahorizontes.v5i17.159.

The objective of this article is to know the perspective and behavior of students about the virtual modality in times of pandemic due to the suspension of face-to-face classes, produced by Covid-19. The study was descriptive, cross-sectional, field, documentary and bibliographic; with a quantitative and qualitative approach. The results obtained indicate that 60% of the students were prepared from an educational point of view to face this crisis, in terms of technological equipment, laptops and desktops were used in a higher percentage, the quality of Internet use was between good and regular, among the academic activities carried out, virtual classes stood out, group work and the teams system was the most used for teaching classes. It is concluded that through virtual education, good results were not achieved in terms of the educational training process, the level of teaching of teachers and student learning decreased when comparing the stages before and during the pandemic.

Keywords : Virtual education; Covid-19; pandemic; higher education; students, ESPOCH..

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