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POST-PANDEMIC RE-ADAPTATION AND THE USE OF ICTS: PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENTS FROM GUAYAQUIL UNIVERSITY

Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated uncertainty in the university community and an enormous challenge for managing the processes, particularly the educational continuity, during the post-pandemic stage until the total reopening of the university institutions, with the consequent restructuring of the teaching and learning processes, taking advantage of the lessons learned during the crisis. This scientific article analyzes the perceptions of the students of the Information Technology and Telecommunications and Networking Engineering degree courses of the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Guayaquil, on the potentialities of Information and Communication Technologies for their re-adaptation to university scenarios with higher levels of academic presence in post-pandemic contexts. In general, students consider the possibility offered by these technological resources to facilitate the transition from the distance mode to the blended mode without limiting the fulfilment of curricular objectives to be very high, which denotes the students’ preference for hybrid models that harmoniously combine the face-to-face and the virtual instead of the exclusive predominance of only one of these two forms of teaching interaction.