La educación virtual y las herramientas comunicativas adoptadas por los docentes para la enseñanza durante la pandemia en el cantón Salcedo

Abstract

The present research work analyzes the fundamental role played by communicative tools within the educational processes, the protagonism generated based on the existing need to prevent students from stagnating in their educational levels, as a result of the health emergency generated by covid-19. The role played by these strategies to be channels that allow teachers to transfer knowledge to their receivers, in this case the students, is one of the aspects investigated in this thesis. In order to carry out this project, the Salcedo National School in the province of Cotopaxi was chosen as the field of research. This school was chosen in order to analyze the reality of the educational process experienced by the students during the two years of the pandemic. Thus, the different tools and strategies that were providedby the teachers to continue with the academic period have been analyzed. The importance of technology during the pandemic is also analyzed, being thefundamental axis and the medium where education moved to, adapting to the time thatpassed at that time and providing the facilities so that both teachers and students can recreate an environment similar to the one that took place in the classroom, but now from their respective comfort zones. In order to obtain more real data, a quantitative approach was applied in this researchwork, where statistical information was obtained that led to know the experiences thatthe students had in that period of online study