The COVID-19 Pandemic as a driver of education 5.0 at UAH Faculty of Pharmacy

Introduction: In March 2020, the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Madrid province, Spain, forced changes in the teaching and organisational methodologies of University educational centres in order to continue delivering knowledge contents that allowed students to acquire the competences and skills required by current regulations. Method(s): Different surveys were carried out on possible alternative teaching methodologies and strategies to be used by the teachers responsible for the different courses in the face of the pandemic situation. They explained to students how the teaching was going to proceed using different remote channels. Result(s): Different strategies such as the heuristic, discovery or playful method facilitated the teaching-learning process allowing students for the acquisition of useful knowledge, competences and skills for job placement. Innovative teaching methods were used, such as the inverted classroom or flipped classroom, cooperative learning, project-based learning or gamification, depending on the characteristics of the different disciplines. The results achieved so far have been, despite initial concerns and doubts, satisfactory, achieving the objectives and skills set at the beginning of the courses. The students have worked on specific, individual or cooperative projects, in which they have faced real problems in the context of service-learning, stimulating their critical thinking, communication, problem solving abilities, with a more practical and tangible dimension. Conclusion(s): The pandemic has accelerated the implementation of an Education 5.0 project, making teachers use resources that some but not all had used previously to promote effective and quality teaching. Combining the new technological tools with traditional educational methodologies helps teachers to achieve their teaching outcomes in a more effective way without losing sight to prepare students for lifelong learning far beyond the digital.

Evaluation of learning at UAH School of Pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic

Introduction: The problem caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led teachers to use different tools to measure the learning process of students in a socially distanced context. For this reason, during the 2019-20 academic year, the teachers at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Alcal, Spain, had to come up against the challenge of establishing a consistent, systematic and rigorous online evaluation system to screen which students had the competences and skills demanded by current regulations. Method(s): A survey was designed using Google forms and addressed, from the Dean's office, to professors and lecturers of the five undergraduate courses, concerning the type of evaluation tools that they were going to use with the students in order to proceed with a sound evaluation, taking into account that data protection regulations had to be respected, rigorously. Result(s): Doubts were raised about integrity and ethics when carrying out the different online evaluation tests. News appeared in the media and social networks about how to know the correct answers in a questionnaire through its source code, by hiring experts who solve the exams, or doing the activities together using the versatility of social networks that allow simultaneous collective interaction, etc. In this survey, in addition to indicating the number of tests to be performed, the teachers informed the authors about the tools available for use: short answer questions, multiple choice tests, essay or interrelated concepts questions with clear evaluation rubrics, reflection on practical cases, open-book exams. Conclusion(s): All teachers learned and adapted quickly to the different assessment tools available on the Blackboard platform according to the characteristics of the course and considered that the pandemic has opened a critical window for innovative technology based-assessment methodologies.

STRATEGY FORUM CHAT FOR THE PROSECUTION OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES IN THE MIDST OF CONFINEMENT BEFORE EL COVID-19

The paralysis of face-to-face academic activities at all levels and modalities of the educational system in Venezuela, contracted that the university campuses for the development of their agenda for the period 2020-I reprogram their planning, rethinking other ways of continuing from virtuality. The article shows, using the qualitative methodology the systematization of experiences, from the chat forum Colloquium LII-UBA strategy developed by the Research Directorate of the Bicentennial University of Aragua during the confinement process. Concluding that it provides an interactive space, for planning, dissemination of themes, or conducting protocol events through effective collaborative work.