Virtual teaching of business sciences in a pandemic: challenges and challenges

Abstract

The objective of this research was to determine the challenges and challenges of recent virtual teaching initiatives as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of business science university professors from a public university in the city of Cúcuta (Colombia). The research had a quantitative approach framed in the empirical-analytical paradigm and a non-experimental-cross-sectional design. The sample consisted of 75 teachers. The instrument used was a Likert-type questionnaire with 5 alternatives and supported by open questions. The results denote the adaptation to the challenge of teachers to teaching with integration of ICT, towards training processes and then based on the Web, which circumscribes self-learning and connected learning. It is concluded that the challenge is to use technological tools and at the same time to do so in the management and organization of teaching, construction of learning communities, communication and teaching strategies.