Proceso educativo y sus alternativas tecnológicas frente al COVID-19 en Ecuador

Abstract

The educational process and its technological alternatives to COVID 19 in Ecuador. The MINEDUC (Ministry of Education and Culture of Ecuador) elaborates biosecurity measures in order to control contagion. As the main strategy, it was used the closure of educational institutions, and children and adolescents had to embrace virtual education based on the use of ICTs, maintaining a relationship teacher-student and giving continuity to the educational process. According to the information obtained, not all students have easy access to technology, most of them due to their economic situation, lack of technological knowledge, and their location (rural areas). As this is an emerging social problem, it is necessary to investigate it and to be aware of the changes and measures generated during this pandemic. The objective of this research is to analyze the technological alternatives in the educational process in the COVID 19 context in Ecuador, which will allow to know the different tools, methodologies, technological instruments and virtual platforms created to educate at home. The methodology was proposed based on bibliographic research of specialized sources such as Google Scholar, Redalyc, Scielo, scientific articles, web documents, videos, magazine articles and virtual books, in order to investigate the educational social reality presented by this health emergency. Therefore it was concluded that technologies can break distance barriers, which allows the fulfillment of different educational and work activities at home, being of great importance in different social environments.