Challenges of virtual education in Latin América

The purpose of this article is to show and exhibit the challenges of virtual education in Latin America as a result of the advances in communication and information technologies that are currently being deployed internationally, and which were also accelerated after the COVID-19 pandemic. It was known that virtual education would lead to a change in the teaching and learning processes, but not in the way it prevailed, where it was revealed in all its contextualization, since it was characterized by the abandonment in the accompaniment and tutoring of students. In Latin America, education was transfigured from the institutions to the students' homes, leading to mostly negative rather than positive educational experiences for a large number of students at all school levels. This was due to the great social inequality prevailing in Latin America, creating a new social categorization, such as the inforricos and the infopobres. In other words, between those who can and cannot access virtual education. The above, showed again the great social, economic and educational differences that still exist in Latin America. Finally, this unfortunately does not favor people's literacy, nor does it favor the universal right to education.

• Tác giả chính: Cantú-Martínez, Pedro (author)
• Định dạng: article
• Ngôn ngữ: spa
• Được phát hành: 2022
• Những chủ đề: educación; educación virtual; desigualdad social; pobreza; education; virtual education; social inequality; poverty
• Truy cập trực tuyến: https://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/CATEDRA/article/view/3487