The Distance education during SARS CoV2 pandemic: a challenge for health care educators

Abstract

This research analyzes the teaching processes and methodologies during the pandemic and the teaching-learning-evaluation spaces of distance education (EAD) in higher education in the health team. A structured, self-administered and anonymous survey was conducted online at the national level. Teachers that answered work more with undergraduate students, they teach and evaluate, with portable screens and cell phones, a third of them are shared and paid by teachers them-selves; more than a half did not use ICT before the pandemic, and they had very little adequate training. After the first wave of the pandemic, half responded to be trained in virtuality and pedagogy, recognized as strengths: "time and space" and as weaknesses: improvement and the "difficulty of face-to-face in massive numbers". Teachers are not convinced by the EAD for monitoring or approaching students, they consider that essential objectives have been met: working with greater intensity, more hours, overwhelmed and preferring face-to-face. It is clearer than ever that teaching work is irreplaceable and needs to be revalued. An unprecedented crisis has been managed. Education has mutated. The information collected in this research will promote decision-making to plan better strategies that facilitate the best use of technologies and virtuality that are obviously here to stay.