Impacts and challenges of online education arising from COVID-19 pandemic

• Main Author: Rocha, Elizabeth Matos
• Publication Date: 2021
• Other Authors: Lima, Juliana Maria da Silva
• Format: Article
• Language: por; spa
• Source: Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação (Online)
• Download full: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/article/view/14526
• topic: COVID-19; Face-to-face teaching; Distance education; COVID-19; Enseñanza presencial; Enseñanza a distancia; COVID-19; Ensino presencial; Ensino a distância

This paper aims to reflect on the impacts and challenges imposed on online education, in Brazilian territory, in 2020, an atypical year, given the incidence and readjustment of the educational agenda imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the regulatory framework issued by the federal government and MEC was addressed, presenting the specific regulations at UFGD. It was shown that the modalities of face-to-face and distance education suffered impacts related to the alteration of the agenda and the pedagogical format, since undergraduate distance education courses, due to Decree nº 9057/2017, generate social flow at some point, too. It is admitted that there has been a change in the behavior of society in the experience of remote education subsidized by a set of standards and technological availability, especially those that make classes via web conferences feasible.