Higher Education in Pandemic Times

Vásquez H.T. · Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice (2022) · DOI: 10.33423/jhetp.v22i11.5409

Resumen

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has generated unprecedented crises in various areas. Education was affected causing the massive closure of institutions in order to avoid and mitigate the spread and impact of COVID-19, in that sense, the adaptation of the face-to-face modality to the virtual one. This research includes the bibliographic review that seeks to analyze and organize various theoretical contributions, visualizing the impulse in the improvement of the procedures that University Education in pandemic entails. Distance education studies, virtual environments for learning, COVID-19 and higher education in pandemic were incorporated using databases such as Google Scholar, Redalyc, Dialnet, Scielo. Documents were selected between 2016 and 2021, exclusion criteria were used and the studies that responded to the concerns regarding the topic to be investigated were qualitatively analyzed. The results reveal that Virtual Education has the adequate support to continue with the educational demand; since it allows the development, interaction, construction, and socialization of knowledge by exchanging knowledge, ideas and experiences among the actors.

Instituciones: Universidad César Vallejo