Learning processes during Covid-19. University students perceptions within the agronomics department

Abstract

This document delivers an analysis performed on university students’ perception of the principal problems present within the teachinglearning processes applied during the Covid-19 pandemic, and observes how the students gradually adapted to this new reality via the using of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to accomplish the correspondent learning units’ activities, given the closure of educational institutions instructed by the appropriate authorities. The applied research methodology was both qualitative and quantitative in nature. A convenience sampling was utilized in the application of 145 surveys and six in-depth interviews to students of two different bachelor careers from the Agricultural Sciences Faculty (Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias) of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos), in Mexico. The primary problems observed among the students were: lack of personal interest in pursuing academic activities, excess in assigned homework, along with psychological and economic struggles in a personal level. Nonetheless, it is concluded from this study that both students and the teaching body made a significant effort to achieve the goals of their educational programs in order to avoid the loss or the rescheduling of their corresponding school cycles.