ABSTRACT
The current pandemic scenario, which has affected the entire world since the beginning of 2020, has had important and significant impacts in all areas of society, with particular emphasis on education. It is about some of these impacts that we will reflect in this text. The proposed study aims to reflect on the effects of the pandemic on higher education, with specificity in Brazil and as a research question: “what are the opinions of students of a Pedagogy course on emergency remote teaching”? We will make some reflections based on the literature published in 2020-2021 and we will complete this reflection based on empirical data collected through a questionnaire applied to students of a Pedagogy course at a particular HEI. Uncertainty, perplexity, volatility, complexity and ambiguity are an integral part of the daily lives of students, their families and teachers and administrators. The virtual has become the only reality in which choices and decisions have to be made. The need for adaptations in education systems with the use of new technologies had the effect of adopting a simple path, that is, by the mere use of technologies, the effects on student learning/training are not yet known. This path, which consists of the mere replacement of in-person classes with online classes, does not guarantee, a priori, the quality of teaching. As there is no known empirical data that allow us to reflect on the effects on students of replacing face-to-face classes with online classes, we intend to know, from the data collected, what are the negative and positive impacts of the on going changes. © 2021, Edicoes Universitarias Lusofonas. All rights reserved.