Emergency Remote Teaching in Latin America Higher Education: the case of a regional public university in Argentina

CONSTANTINO, GUSTAVO D.

Formazione&Insegnamento

Pensa Multimedia s.r.l.

Lugar: Lecce; Año: 2020 vol. 18 p. 121 - 132

1973-4778

This paper reports on the evolution of Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) in a regional University in Argentina, and its possible consequences. The experiences lived by the author, narrated in the first person, are intertwined with observation, analysis and reflection on the issues imposed by ERT in Higher Education in the country that has a quarantine record and whose 2020school year will be entirely under this modality. Didactic aspects, as well as infrastructure and institutional organization, are thoroughly informed and analysed in the light of theoretical-practical criteria. The adverse effects of a prolonged and uncertain quarantine, plus the problems inherent in the limiting conditions faced by the students, caused rapid exhaustion and disengagement. These effects can be a stumbling block for the post-pandemic stage or "New-Normal", to the extent that students and teachers could tendto revalue face-to-face teaching without capitalizing on the digital competencies acquired for the hybridization of teaching.