The impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Higher Education-A Case of Success of ICT Educational Programs

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a big impact in all human being activities;education context was especially affected. A disrupted shift from face-to-face teaching-learning practices to learning activities and/or pedagogical activities supported by digital platforms or social networks was lived. Limitations in Internet access and mastering of technological media impacted the pedagogical, psychological, and affective side of the students. This paper presents a study on the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of school dropout;an analysis was carried out on the percentages of the indicator of non-enrollment of each one of the educational programs at a Mexican university. The results showed that educational programs with an ICT orientation beat this contingency in a better way. This encourages us to continue this research to investigate how new professionals are getting ready for the fashion of working from home. © 2022 IEEE.