Attitude of university students towards virtual education during the COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT

The objective of this research was to analyze the attitude of the students of the National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios towards virtual education in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research focus was quantitative, the non-experimental design and the descriptive transitional type of design. The sample consisted of 154 students of both sexes from the professional education, career and was determined by means of a stratified probabilistic sampling. The instrument used for data collection was the Scale of Attitudes towards virtual education, which has the required reliability and validity. Based on the results, it was shown that the majority of students present an attitude of indifference towards virtual education and statistically significant differences were found between the sex and age of the students.