Perception of Teachers in the use of Electronic Platforms to Support Face-to-Face Teaching During the term of The State of Emergency due to Covid-19: Case of the Pedagogical University of Maputo

Manuel Constantino Zunguze,Malaquias Zildo António Tsambe

doi:10.22456/1679-1916.110195

Manuel Constantino Zunguze, Malaquias Zildo António Tsambe

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https://doi.org/10.22456/1679-1916.110195

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Journal: RENOTE	Publication Date: Jan 4, 2021
Citations: 1	License type: cc-by

Affiliation: Pedagogical University

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic forced most of the high education institutions to revert their teaching and learning process from face-to-face teaching system to the process of teaching and learning through the use of electronic platforms. Due to this situation, each high education institution has defined one or a set of electronic platforms to continue to guarantee the effectiveness of teaching classes during this period. It was from the above that this research was developed, which aimed to analyze the perception of teachers at the Pedagogical University of Maputo about accessibility and the use of electronic platforms as a resource to support face-to-face teaching during the term of COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that most of the teachers interact with the students via WhatsApp and Email through their mobile devices and laptops.

Highlights

The COVID-19 pandemic influences different processes, systems and, above all, societies lifestyles
Higher education institutions have chosen to continue with the teaching and learning processes through different electronic platforms, a methodology provided in the Strategic Plan for Distance Learning (PEED)
The results shown in figure 4 shows that, 85.1% and 82.8% of the teachers access the electronic platforms from their laptop and mobile phones respectively

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Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic influences different processes, systems and, above all, societies lifestyles. Mozambique, like the different countries in the world, had to adopt measures conducive to this new reality. The National Education System (SNE) underwent the challenge of adapting to the new reality, especially with the declaration of the State of Emergency imposed by the spread of COVID-19. It was in this context that the different Education subsystems in Mozambique had to adopt specific measures in order to guarantee the continuity of the teaching and learning process. Higher education institutions have chosen to continue with the teaching and learning processes through different electronic platforms, a methodology provided in the Strategic Plan for Distance Learning (PEED). The PEED (2013) refers to the perspective of implementing Distance Learning in Mozambique, defining distance education as being “the teaching model that is distinguished by the separation between student and teacher, use of technology to mediate learning, two-way communication that allows interaction between students, teachers and tutors and the possibility of face-to-face meetings for tutorials ”

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