Lessons in the Use of Technology for Science Education during COVID-19 Age under a Teachers’ Collaboration Cluster

Education Sciences

Francisco Delgado¹  Alfonso Jaimes-Nájera²  Marco Enríquez-Flores³ 

[1] School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, Atizapán 52926, Mexico;School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico;School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe, Santa Fe 01389, Mexico;

关键词: scientific education;    COVID-19;    educative innovation;    technologies;    methodologies;    higher education;   

DOI  :  10.3390/educsci11090543

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The COVID-19 confinement has represented both opportunities and losses for education. Rarely before has any other period moved the human spirit into such discipline or submission—depending on one’s personal and emotional points of view. Both extremes have been widely influenced by external factors on each individual’s life path. Education in the sciences and engineering has encountered more issues than other disciplines due to specialized mathematical handwriting, experimental demonstrations, abstract complexity, and lab practices. This work analyses three aspects of science education courses taught by university professors in a collaborative teacher cluster, sharing technology applications and education methodologies in science over three semesters when the COVID-19 lockdown was in effect. The first aspect was a didactic design coming from several educational frameworks through adoption or sharing. The second one was an analysis by discipline of multiple factors affecting student engagement during the health contingency. The third analysis examined the gains and losses in our students caused by the university closure and the pandemic’s intrusions. The report explores the correlations of the exiting student perceptions with their academic performance in the courses and survey results about the impact of decisions or happenings during the crisis. This work’s value lies in the lessons for the future of education concerning the teacher dominions of didactic design, support, and collaboration in a broader sense than only for teaching.

【 授权许可】

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