INSIGHTS OF THE ENGINEERING STUDENTS WHEN ADAPTING FROM THE FACE-TO-FACE LEARNING APPROACH TO THE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered economic, sanitary, social, and educational crisis worldwide. The public educational systems of the Latin American countries have been the most affected due to the economic constraints this region faces. Unfortunately, the closure of the educational facilities has left 156 million of students out of the classrooms while the traditional higher education system was challenged to adapt from the face-to-face learning approach to the alternative virtual environment. The aim of this research is to assess the insights of a group of public higher education engineering students about the challenges, the advantages and the opportunities when ESPOL university deployed strategies to embrace the starting of the online education in Ecuador amid the harshest havoc of the outbreak. A survey was structured to obtain information about the negative and positive aspects of the online modality and …

Año de publicación:

2020

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