Remote teaching in the face of the demands of the pandemic context: Reflections on teaching practice

Abstract

The objective is to carry out a reflexive analysis on the teaching practice in remote education in times of pandemic. Method: This is a critical-reflexive analysis, about the changes required in the context of the pandemic context of COVID-19, which spread throughout the world, requiring a movement of permanent training in teaching practice as a challenge regarding the use of technology information and communication, in order to carry out emergency remote education. Result: In the experience under construction to carry out remote teaching at the university, there are countless challenges with regard to teaching practice, since the classes will be taught using Virtual Learning Environments. In this sense, the institution has developed actions such as: raising equipment and Internet access conditions for all servers and students; offer technological support to the largest number of students, teachers and technical-administrative staff; general and specific norms to support the decisions and managerial actions of the directions, coordinations, heads of departments and teachers; offered subsidies aimed at training teachers to carry out remote teaching practice. Conclusions: Emergency Remote Education gained prominence in this moment of crisis, placing the entire social body of the university facing the challenges of building new forms of teaching and learning, giving new meaning to pedagogical practices. Therefore, the entire academic community is being severely impacted and ways of dealing with reality are continually being sought, which affects people not only in the process of learning to learn, but in the physical, emotional and social aspects, in the face of the crisis installed world.