El rol del profesor universitario ante el nuevo paradigma educativo post pandemia COVID-19: amenazas y oportunidades.

Abstract

The year 2020 will go down in the history of pedagogy as the year in which, due to the pandemic, face-to-face teaching had to be replaced by a virtual type of education, a new paradigm that is consolidating for the future. Given this milestone, this work undertakes a review of texts that appeared internationally between March and September 2020 about the massive adoption of e-learning imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. An exploratory study is also carried out through a validated questionnaire, to which an open question was added to teachers from 25 Spanish, public and private Universities, to study the perception of university teachers in the face of this educational fact and their possible challenges, fears, and expectations; the place that ICTs occupy in their pedagogical model and the way in which their teaching role has been compromised. The results show us, on the one hand, the enormous possibilities provided by the implementation of e-learning at the university level with a great desire for improvement on behalf the teachers, although, on the other hand, in some variables they show certain skepticism and concern. Differences in sex and age are also relevant. Faced with this new situation, university teachers expressed contradictory feelings of acceptance and frustration.