Systematic Review of the Literature on the Social Representations of the COVID-19 Pandemic

At the end of 2019, an unprecedented virus emerged in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, affecting practically the entire world. In 2020, the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic, that is, a new disease that spread throughout the world. It is clear that this definition of a pandemic seems to be relative today, since we could be talking about a syndemic, given the seriousness and consequences it is causing. It is necessary to approach a definition and characterization of COVID 19, since it is vitally important to identify it and know how it behaves. The objective of this systematic review was to identify the existing evidence in the scientific literature on the social representations of the COVID-19 pandemic. Eleven studies were identified that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The search descriptors were "social representations”, "pandemic” and "COVID-19”. The classification, quantification and integration of the various variables studied on the user experience are detailed. The study shows that there are authors who do not formally define or characterize the Social Representation variable, and even fail to refer to the nature and definition of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, which is presented as a recommendation for future studies. © 2022, Associacao Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao. All rights reserved.

Ease of use and perceived usefulness and its influence on motivation, collaboration and behavioral intention in university students in times of Covid-19

The purpose of this study was to test the relationship of influence of ease of use and perceived usefulness on motivation, collaboration, and behavioral intention in university students in times of Covid-19. The methodology used for the study corresponds to a non-experimental investigation, a questionnaire was applied to a convenience sample of 530 university students (n=19;α=0.944 ω=0.946), using Factor Exploratory and Confirmatory Analysis as tests of validity and reliability, through the Modeling of Structural Equations of Partial Least Squares PLS-SEM. The results have shown that there is a positive effect of causality of perceived ease of use on student collaboration, student motivation and perceived usefulness;in the same way, there exists a causal relationship between the perceived usefulness and the student's collaboration, the intention of the behavior and the student's motivation. Contrarily, there would not be an influence relationship between perceived ease of use on behavioral intention in university students in a context of Covid-19. © 2022 IEEE.

Affective Support Mediated by an On-Line Constructivist Environment in Times of Covid-19

The main objective is to know the level of influence of the factors that make up the Constructivist On-Line Learning Environment Survey (COLLES) questionnaire, on affective support, mediated through the LMS Blackboard Learn, in engineering students at the level of undergraduate degree at a private university in Peru in times of Covid-19, using the PLS-SEM methodology, which is a multivariate method called Modeling of Structural Equations with Partial Least Squares. The results obtained from the exploratory and confirmatory factorial analysis, has allowed to corroborate that the most important factor in collaboration as a basis for meaningful learning is affective support, in which affective/cognitive mediations are established between students. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.