Effect Induced by the Covid-19 Pandemic on Students’ Perception About Technologies and Distance Learning

Knowledge, Risk Perception, and Preventive Behaviors Related to COVID-19 Pandemic Among Undergraduate Medical Students in Egypt

“…Moreover, many universities across the world rapidly take a decision to develop new strategies and to shift many of their educational activities from face-to-face mode to an online one using a lot of applications such as Twitter, Facebook, Cisco Webex, and Zoom [13].…”

Online computer science workshops for educators in higher education during Covid-19: challenges and opportunities of a forced distance learning

“…After one or more weeks from the lockdown, Italian higher education institutions were able to transpose most of their didactic activities online, using platforms (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet) to communicate, exchange materials, assess and graduate students. Several researches (Luppi et al, 2020;Di Palma & Belfiore, 2020;Giovannella, 2020;Bruschi, 2020) could collect data from the majority of Italian universities, providing evidence for opportunities, weaknesses, strengths and difficulties of distance education that these institutions were affording during the academic year 2019/2020. More correctly, it would be appropriate to consider that teachers and students were working in a situation of 'emergency remote teaching' (ERT), stressing the fact that, especially in the initial phase of implementation, there was not enough time to design and plan adequate activities, to select the opportune tools, to check the connection and availability of digital tools for students, and going online was the only alternative to suspend any educational activity (Hodges et al, 2020).…”

Resiliencia, aprendizaje virtual y COVID-19 en estudiantes universitarios

“…En este caso el cierre de las instituciones educativas afectó a más del 70% de la población estudiantil mundial, es por ello que las actividades didácticas tuvieron que transferirse dentro de los entornos virtuales, este cambio de lo físico a lo virtual. Según Giovannella (2021), los docentes no se sentían lo suficientemente capacitados para el manejo del Internet, y solo se limitaban al uso del correo electrónico, ellos no estaban completamente preparados para rediseñar y adaptar su didáctica a la nueva situación. Por su parte, los estudiantes consideran que es muy útil el uso de tecnologías didácticas para aumentar el nivel de su competencia digital, y aceptan positivamente el uso de las tecnologías didácticas y la educación a distancia.…”