El problema no es el aprendizaje ya que este se logra con la actividades la interacción con el contenido a través de las actividades de aprendizaje, pero si la evaluación continua de los aprendizaje

If you're a PowerPoint-driven lecturer, adopting e-learning makes things easier. You can, in effect, phone it in.

If you're teaching a lab class, or using a format that requires a lot of class participation, the new techniques are not especially useful.

Coronavirus made us learn more about e-learning and appreciate its importance in making education lifelong

For me I had already started some baby steps in this area. But then the current situation left me with no options but to roll it into full swing. I have never enjoyed teaching like this for some time. The stress of coming after standing and shouting for long hours...

I am teaching Adults who come with numerous responsibilities. Teaching online for a week has been well received by the students. I have been able to identify some of the strengths of even the most quiet students in class through online discussion. Also, e-learning allows them to log in at any time and make a meaningful contribution. I just love e-learning and no more turning back.

We observe multiple issues:

(1) True assessment will be affected by the student's willingness to play by the Distance Learning rules;

(2) When working with very different populations in multiple countries, you are dependent on technology;

(3) To succeed in maintaining high participation and adhesion, it is necessary to build a permanent and regular attractiveness (quiz, short vidéos, very short readings, etc.);

(4) You can relatively identify "tourists" by using smartly sudden and unexpected quiz;

(5) We agree with Ivan Sanchez. Proper Assessment Process becomes your Distance Learning cornerstone.

Among other issues...

If the use is for online lectures, I am not particularly impressed as all that involves is talking at students, not drawing them out into interaction. For smaller classes – 10 20 students, something like Zoom where each student can see one another as well as the instructor works quite well. I like to call on students whether or not they have raised their hand and being able to see them allows me to ascertain who is and who is not engaged.

This is really the appropriate internet medium for classless-structure instructions amid this covid-19 crisis. Firstly, with the University where I am connected, It's nice that it has established the virtual classroom before the covid-19 outbreak in our country Philippines. It is a complete e-learning resource. It has the capacity to have instructions in a form of a forum and video conference. Hence, despite the foregoing crisis still the quality instructions have been sustained and uphold the University ideals, vision and mission. Secondly, I am updated with any activities that 's been taking place in the virtual classroom flatform through our University Email address. Thus, all professors are instructed to always monitor or open the email first hour every morning of the day. By this, we can take actions when so requires.

With changing times, one needs to change. Corona virus implies the wind of change in more ways than one. Talking about Virtual learning, some were used to it but the present scenario has made it almost mandatory for most. The challenge in the virtual classroom is keeping the students engaged all through, pushing educators to be as innovative and creative to convert the classroom teaching to a virtual classroom teaching. Lastly, we are tech savvy, but this again does challenge us technically too. The experience we create in a classroom with our physical presence is very different. I personally believe the connect that happens face to face lacks in virtual mode.

Thank you for sharing your views and experiences!

Educators became more modern using different possibilities of e-education. But it give a lot of work in preparation more unusual, creative and interesting tasks for students, written materials for lessons, checking participation of students during e-education.

I honestly think that the pandemic serves as the big push for us to go into the full swing mode (if not aggressive) for e-learning. Previously, I had issues with e-learning especially student engagement. Now that it has come to this, I guess my students have come to terms that e-learning is the alternative for them not to be left out. But of course, as the instructor, I also have to step up to improve my delivery to ensure maximum engagement for my students' benefits. I believe other instructors are doing the same as well.

Dear Martin G. Debattista . Online learning is the only possible approach these days. We use Zoom or Webex to communicate with students and deliver the curruculum. The continuing evaluation shows that the method is working and keeping staff and students engaged. I would like to ask about assessment. How are you planning your assessment? The evaluation is difficult and challenging. Many countries are moving into a flexible way. Read for example, the recent paper that was published by the BMJ about examinations in the UK universities at the time of Coronavirus. I think this is an important paper, I would like to hear from others and you, what do you think about assessment? What strategies would you use?

This big change for most teachers require a lot of patience and communication with both students and parents. Teachers and families need advice to organize schedules, find tutorials in the internet and stress management.

It is good to learn online in difficult situations, but in poor countries where there are no facilities, this process is not applicable because students do not have access to computers and the ability to pay online.

Thanks

The students can accept it under advanced preparation and practice, plus change the course design. I found most students pay more attention to learning rather than the virus and difficulty from commuting to campus.

I agree with Sedqi, it is a good opportunity to upgrade online e-learning. However, the facility and wifi quality should be taken into account.

We never expected this sudden transition to e-learning from predominantly face to face instructional set up in wake of Covid 19 emergency .This is the time we as teacher educators are realising the importance of e-learning maxim 'anytime,anywhere and for everyone'. As this is the fag end of semester,we have what's app group ,we can reach to students for the uncovered syllabi or for solving their difficulties. But this has many challenges as students also have to be proactive and participative;of course initiative is of teacher only. There are many administrative challenges as some websites don't support much content and at some HEIs in India,teachers don't have even their institutional email IDs.But these challenging times have brought to for benefits of e-learning in contemporary times.

It was a very sudden overnight change, literally being announced at 11pm that schools would close the following day. Staff had to adapt very quickly and plan, deliver lessons following the normal school timetable. Staff had to learn new applications, software very quickly. Initially it was a sharing of tasks and documents online for the pupils to complete and phased into voice notes, power points with voice over and then to live virtual lessons via zoom. staff report increased independence and engagement amongst those pupils who enjoy a more flexible approach, large percentage of pupils have not engaged and therefore require further intervention to find out what are the barriers.

Aser: The teacher can assess their student's trough given tasks such as term paper some question as an assignment and want from them to answer it send all of them in their personal mail it is the only way a teacher can assess their students.

Important change that we should embrace, although with an unexpected switch, some parts of the world like ours have own implications and challenges. Not all learners are able to attend lessons/ tasks given at the same time. Work is usually sent via watsapp platforms as the only means but this makes work pill up for some learners and teachers because students have different learning abilities.In some cases students have no gadges to easily access lessons and tasks posted.

Most student tell me that they are on hold and await instructions by the tutor. It is clear that both parties have to get used to the changed circumstances. I want to mark out that group discussion remains superficial and that I have to make sure that the introverted types don't get lost in all the extravertion dynamics. In one-to-one help and test situation it satisfies both parties. E-learning is a suitable extra instrument in a teacher's tool box. But the physical close proximity is, for me, an important key factor in the education process.

I believe e-learning is supportive. There are several opportunities to teach students in non-traditional manner. However, much of the communication that occurs between two humans in non-print form is lost. Its amazing to see just how many ways we communicate. I would not supplant the classroom learning environment for students K-8. If anything, I've come to realize, from the classroom, just how imperative interactions are, especially for children of low socio-economic communities.

at the moment we have no option other than e-learning so we have to go with e-learning there is no other choice. but is very difficult to make it effective and alternative of regular classroom teaching learning overnight. and there are many issues associated with this such insufficient technological equipments and facilities, knowledge of teachers and students to use that system, these are very common issue which teachers, students and institutions are facing. such types of issues and problems are more common in developing countries due to lack of required technological tools.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Challenges_in_medical_education_in_pandemic_era

My view of e-learning has always been pragmatic. It depends on the class and the objectives of that class. There are times it is appropriate and times it is not. This is coming from a place where there is good infrastructure for the internet and students have computers. The challenges of getting everyone organized and engaged online don't impact my view of e-learning, though they are challenges and they do require more flexibility as a teacher.

For chemistry majors laboratory classes, my view has not changed, I still do not believe e-learning alone is appropriate. It is a great supplement to the hands-on learning that occurs in the laboratory but it is not a substitute for the hands-on skills and mistakes that help students grow and become proficient in a lab environment. Students will be missing the experience this semester to set up a buret, measure and titrate acid, figure out what impact an air bubble can have on their results, leave the funnel in the buret and have to remove it and do the titration over, over titrate past an endpoint, develop the motor skills to swirl and titrate at the same time, make an error reading a buret. When we do a titration experiment online, they understand theoretically what is happening and practice the calculations but are missing learning the hands-on lab skills.

For non-majors chemistry class for preservice teachers, it works well. This chemistry class is not for content experts, but instead learning the chemistry concepts and making connections with how you will teach the ideas to students. The class was already flipped, students were assigned video/reading at home and worked in groups on problems in the classroom. The lab activities were simple and modeled on exploring phenomena and NGSS for teaching elementary students. This class had an easier transition, but instead of focusing on giving them experience with authentic science experiments, the focus shifted to using virtual laboratory experiments to explore the phenomena and NGSS. The students are not missing as much when they leave this class, as teachers, they won't have the expectation of being able to perform a titration for example that the science major students will have.

Good morning

It depends on the institution resources and the group of students.

Also, the quality and competences of everybody.

Best regards

Ingrid García

Luckily for me, I had the chance to acclimate into the virtual classes because most of our classes did not begin until after the spring break, so I had time to digest the change and learn the new format. We are using Zoom. Also, the university I teach at has been extremely hands-on by giving us workshops and tutorials. The IT department organized a WhatsApp emergency group for problems. They are available 24 hours. They are doing an amazing job. Personally, I look at e-learning as a challenge and a new learning experience. Still, I think not all classes can be taught virtually or asynchronous due to the type of class, such as a lab. With that said, I am managing and my students are incredibly patient with the new format. In fact, most of them prefer the online classes. Again, as luck has it, all of my students have devices they can easily access. However, I do know for other classes not all students are this fortunate. With all this said, we must be positive until normalcy returns--whatever that means. We may have to live with a new kind of normal, I fear.

Wow! Hats off to all your efforts! I am also affirmed in the use of the Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and effective strategies identified by students for teaching online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGEprVb5HHg

https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s11528-017-0216-y?author_access_token=avRP0hyyqCr_fpKMpw4jiPe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY51KNmCuFRpBnpIsby5_awB2jZhOrJ1fViWYQSS7YFfePddwHNgRXYjTAK8ktHJ18M6wbUY1jkxJtvp4XJzs3gbMSQUwzadZE9kdJn7Y_ejwA%3D%3D

E-learning is a convenient way of teaching and learning at this time of crisis....but not all especially on the below class households who have no access to internet....

I still enjoy the personal interaction in classroom however in these trying times of COVID 19, I have explored the vurtual medium and am using Zoom. This is a learning experience for me and am realising just as i keep exploring the tools available to make the virtual learning interesting, interactive, I feel confident students too will begin to enjoy learning through virtual medium.

However, I do agree, what happens to those who do not have a computer/tablet/laptop. May be the smat phone can help but again what also can be a constraint is uninterrupted internet access.

Happy learning, Happy teaching.

I have been using e-learning/virtual learning to some extent before, but a new thing for me is doing online supervision for master and PhD candidates. That has been a quite nice experience, since the format appears to draw attention to a set of sharing tools that encourage more a specific textual focus on the feedback. It seems that a tad flatter relational quality of the digital format prompts more visual support, directing the conversation towards the text. That has been an interesting experience and might be something to document more systematically concerning how the enforced digitization may influence our supervision practices.

In Corona virus environment, thinking, reading and writing has been quite difficult for most of my students, even though the study an online Master. The emotional intelligence skills domain is a priority over content domain for student and for me.

I enjoy it so much. I can say, I can run the online learning smoothly.