Teachers' perceptions on the development of basic distance education strategies during the confinement by Covid-19

Abstract

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus (Covid-19) has caused different havoc in the international context. In the particular case of education, it forced the different educational figures to improvise actions to learn along the way. Of these actors, it is recognized the relevance that teachers have had as agents of change and strategists who, under an emerging rationality and circumstantial learning, assumed in their own ways the atypical challenge of coping in non-face-to-face work. The general aim of the research was to analyze teachers' perceptions about their role in the development of distance education strategies during the season of confinement by Covid-19, emphasizing work mediated by ICT. A quantitative work of exploratory scope was carried out, with a non-experimental cross-sectional design, a representative sample at the state level in Durango, Mexico. The results show the frequent use of mobile applications for the planning, monitoring and evaluation of learning activities, as well as weaknesses in the formulation of instructional designs. Regarding performance, the teachers considered that their performance and the educational authorities were favorable, however, the students' learning is recognized as insufficient. As limitations of the study, there is the difficulty of conducting high-impact discussions as it is a topic based on emerging circumstances and an inconsistent theoretical framework for basic education.