University Teaching Planning in Times of COVID-19: Analysis of the Catalan Context and Proposal for a Future Model from ESIC Business and Marketing School Experience

Abstract

On 14 March 2020, Spain came to a standstill and the movement of people was restricted with the publication of Royal Decree (RD) 463/2020 and the education sector had to reinvent itself with new rules and procedures. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the different government regulations and their effect on university teaching planning. Since the approval of RD 555/2020, educational competences were returned to the autonomous communities and each of them implemented different public policies. We will analyse the specific impact on teaching planning and models applied in Catalonia and their development, which vary according to the evolution of the number of COVID-19 infections and which has been marking the political, economic and social agenda since the beginning of the pandemic. The university has moved from teaching in a face-to-face environment to a virtual or semi-virtual or blended learning environment. This change implies a paradigmatic transformation in communication, education, organisation, evaluation and planning, among others. At ESIC Business & Marketing School (ESIC) these pedagogical paradigm shifts have contributed to transform the learning processes in a context of pedagogical innovation.

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“…In this survey, 76% of the respondents planned to incorporate the professional knowledge they learned online into their practice. At ESIC Business and Marketing School [16], there has been a change from the face-to-face teaching environment to a virtual or semivirtual or blended learning environment. e norms of communication, education, organization, evaluation, and planning have been revolutionized.…”

Impacto de las Políticas Públicas Educativas en Tiempos de Covid-19

“…(Baleriola & Contreras-Villalobos, 2021). La implementación de las políticas públicas, en las universidades han implicado cambios importantes en los paradigmas de la comunicación, educación, evaluación y planificación, transformando los procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje (Díaz et al, 2021) (Bruschi et al, 2021). Los estudios de implementación de políticas públicas son muy diversos, y según (Hill & Hupe, 2002) en la actualidad existen tres tipos de estudios de implementación: a.…”

Influence of External Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation Process of an HEI Post COVID

“…New teaching methodologies have also been incorporated, such as transformative learning [32], where the "flipped classroom" has been applied. Thus, there has been a shift from the master class, where the teacher is the centre, to putting the student at the centre, and making the whole methodology revolve around the student [34].…”

“…In addition to the above, there is also the possibility of access to both internal and external information, as one of the authors of the study was part of the teaching and research staff at the time of this study. This provides a privileged view of the phenomenon and facilitates access to the sources that have been used in this article following existing models in the literature such as [32], [28], [29].…”