Abstract
Apart from the evident tragedy that the COVID-19 outbreak has meant regarding both personal and economic costs, the normal functioning of the academic year has been drastically altered at all educational levels. Regarding Spain, the state of alert implemented by the government from mid-March to June has affected traditional face-to-face sessions at universities, as they were forbidden and replaced by online lessons. The aim of this work was to explain our own experience during the COVID-19 outbreak in a chemical engineering laboratory at the University of Extremadura, concerning the university teaching and the final degree project follow-up, whose method of teaching was active and participatory, based on constructivism and focused on the student as the center of the learning process. Thus, the confinement affected both the teachers and students differently, depending on the degree of completion of their main tasks and their previous skills with computing and virtual tools, among other factors. The existence of an operating virtual campus and an online library has made the transition to total e-learning and telework easier for teachers and students.
Highlights
The so-called COVID-19 disease derived from the SARS-CoV-2 virus has caused the infection and death of thousands of people around the world
In the case of universities, there are some recent studies where the authors pointed out the increase in e-learning activities in Italy, which was especially affected by the COVID-19 outbreak [6]
The method of teaching used in our laboratory is active and participatory, where the student is the heart of the learning process, whereas the teacher provides educational guidance to the students
Summary
The so-called COVID-19 disease derived from the SARS-CoV-2 virus has caused the infection and death of thousands of people around the world. During the spread of the virus in 2020 and until an effective treatment or vaccine is found, the main ways to avoid or reduce its effect are by complying with hygiene standards and social distancing measures [2,3]. These measures have strongly affected any interpersonal activity, including education at all levels, as students and teachers in many cases have avoided face-to-face sessions during this period [4,5].
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