The dilemma of virtuality in education: the case of Ecuador

This paper analyzed the Ecuadorian educational model in the context of the pandemic, making a comparison between the 2019 presential classes and the virtual system carried out since may 2020. The analysis focuses on the description of the gaps that the virtual system has expanded; a quantitative met...

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Autor: Cilio Mejía, Sebastián
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Central del Ecuador
Repositorio:Revista Kronos Journal
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistadigital.uce.edu.ec:article/3182
Acceso en línea:https://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/KronosJournal/article/view/3182
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Virtualidad
Pandemia
Educación
Brecha educativa
Virtuality
Pandemic
Education
Educational gap
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Sumario:This paper analyzed the Ecuadorian educational model in the context of the pandemic, making a comparison between the 2019 presential classes and the virtual system carried out since may 2020. The analysis focuses on the description of the gaps that the virtual system has expanded; a quantitative methodology has been considered which has incorporated the database of Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (inec), Ministerio de Educación and the World Bank (wb). This research suggests that the emergence of online learning has widened the gap between rural and urban sectors in terms of learning, coverage, and permanence of students in institutions private and public, exacerbating this problem in the last one. Taking into account the context prior to the pandemic, it has shown that Ecuador was not prepared to assume a virtual modality, as the main one, while the data released during the pandemic have shown that Ecuador has a deficiency to generate structural public policies in the medium and long term due to the lack of statistical data on the subject.