Higher Education in Times of Pandemic: strengths and challenges

Abstract

This issue of the Revista de Educación Superior del Sur Global -RESUR- provides us with an approach to higher education institutions and the way in which they have adapted the teaching processes during the health contingency generated as a result of COVID-19 , which has caused a transition from face-to-face to virtual systems, causing a series of disruptive changes for which teachers, students or society in general were not prepared.
The current issue of RESUR aims to present an in-depth analysis of the challenges that the closure of higher education institutions has implied, as well as the strengths of this new work modality, considering issues related to the educational innovations implemented to migrate from face-to-face training to virtual classrooms, the challenges of carrying out this process both for students, as well as for teachers and the institutions under which teaching and learning are carried out, the students' perspective regarding the new way of learning, the strategies proposed by professors to maintain the attention and motivation of young people and the potential that this contingency raises for the improvement of educational practices in favor of training for a new normality. (...)