Active methodologies and virtual resources in a postgraduate course in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Script Under the recent Covid-19 pandemic situation, higher education, as well as every brazilian educational reality, has undergone several transformations and challenges. In this sense, higher education, more than ever, has adhered to active methodologies and virtual resources in order to continue with the teaching-learning process in its courses, disciplines and other pedagogical activities. Therefore, facing the new educational paradigm, the present study intends to report an experience lived in a graduate course, at the University of São Paulo (USP), during emergency teaching. Thus, it aims to describe how the active methodologies and virtual resources favored the teaching-learning between teachers and students during the period of social distance. As for the method, this study is descriptive, of the experience report type, resulting from the experience of a remote course offered by the Pro-Rectory of Postgraduate of USP, in 2021. It is noteworthy that, although crossed by a critical context, this experience was permeated by significant exchanges, constant learning, and challenges that boosted the search, maturation, and deepening of knowledge. The condition imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, although it has limited higher education, has, on the other hand, provoked new thoughts, ideas, paths, and actions in postgraduate. Therefore, using active methods and virtual resources meant seeing in science and technologies the ability to convert and overcome possible barriers that try to stagnate the human endeavor in search of knowledge.