Analysis of teachers' experiences with virtual learning spaces: the case of the International University of Ecuador UIDE

Abstract

With the expansion of COVID-19, the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador UIDE, with other colleges around the world, faced forward to the virtual model education, trying with this to secure access to higher education from their students. The follow work analyses what were the university community teachers perceptions around this new model of education, starting with the first impressions and their development. Based on mixed methods of investigation, set about a first exploration in a quantitative vision and enriched with qualitative methods based on speech analysis, this for trying to understand the complexity of the subjects’ participations in these spaces. The conclusions of this work are the dragged use of the platforms impact in a positive way in the perceptions of them, also, the needed of complementary this with other tolls and social networks, and, for least, the need to incorporate in the students and teachers’ formation these specific capacities.