Distance Education:

Comparative Views from Covid-19

Abstract

The pandemic generated by Covid-19 caused a crisis of global impact that has meant a public health problem of unprecedented magnitude. This situation exceeded by far the problems that humanity had faced in the new century and had a social impact on the daily life of the population; in such a way that it forced to suspend social, cultural and economic activities, as well as to modify the usual working life, so that the actors of education had to modify their daily actions to move to the distance education modality. This paper presents the results of an exploratory comparative study whose objective was to identify the differences and similarities between the visions and experiences of teachers in educational institutions at different levels after the pandemic. The comparison was made on the basis of interviews with teachers from kindergarten to university with respect to distance education during and after COVID-19. The premise of the concept of permanent change in the vision of traditional education was accepted to a greater or lesser extent depending on the educational levels at which they work, the relevance of the subjects, the ease of access to the network, the training received and the results perceived by the educators. As main results obtained from the interviews, differences were identified in the perception of attitude, learning, difficulties in the teaching process, positive and negative experiences, available and developed skills, infrastructure, its existence and scarcity, perception of the requirements for good achievement, values and advantages.