EVALUATION OF DISTANCE LEARNING APPROACHES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC

ABSTRACT

The Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating consequences have been unprecedented in human history. Its high level of contagion has imposed confinement and isolation in countless countries, affecting both the economy and education. In this area, distance education has been promoted through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at all educational levels. This is why several institutions adopt different approaches to distance education. Given the above, there is concern with its relevance and its evaluation is considered opportune, which is the objective of the present work. Two multi-criteria methods (MC) were used Saaty's AHP and Topsis for their versatility in decision making and expert criteria. For which the work presented by Garcia Aretio is taken as a basis. It is concluded that, for the case of confinement, distance education is chosen, where technologies play a primordial role due to the remote synchrony approach (100%), and for post-confinement, the Synchrony and Asynchrony modality is preferred.