SISTEMA DE ENSINO A DISTÂNCIA (EAD) EM TEMPOS DE PANDEMIA

Abstract

The pandemic resulting from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has arrived to make life a true epic, and some questions are being asked about life and behavior after this pandemic: (a) How we should and how we will have to behave thereafter?; (b) What life will be like after this pandemic is over?; (c) How the communication with people can be?; (d) How to teach our children?; (e) What will education be like when pandemic is over?. Similar questions will be asked about education. Quarantine is one of the most efficient weapons in combating the Covid-19, but its duration was not considered to be for more than months. Schools and universities are facing a very hard situation on how to advance education through the Distance Education System (EAD, Brazilian acronym). Using EAD, so that students are not left without studying/learning, was the fastest and safest way to maintain the student’s health and education to date. This paper is discussing the present moment and how the situation can be reinvented facing teaching and new challenges. What problems will be faced? An analysis will be performed by means of bibliographic review and qualitative and quantitative research on the new daily lives of teachers and students, in the face of EAD, its challenges and confrontations. The functionality, capacity, and sociability of the method over the internet, the laws of basic teaching guidelines, and student/teacher socialization will be studied.

Keywords: Covid-19; EaD; education; internet; teaching.