Impacts on higher education and the use of digital technologies during the new coronavirus pandemic

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic brought global changes that affected all areas, including Education. Thousands of teachers and students have modified their teaching and learning routines due to the need for social distancing. The objective of this work was to verify the impacts of the pandemic on Higher Education Education and how the use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICT) was configured in this period. This is a bibliographic review, for which the Google Scholar and Scielo databases were used to search for the files. It can be seen that this moment of Emergency Remote Teaching showed many weaknesses and deficiencies, especially for those who had no economic conditions, negatively affecting the teaching and learning process, emotional and financial issues were also pointed out. Despite the numerous negative points, some possibilities were also highlighted, such as learning technological resources and equipment, improving teaching methods, and the importance of DICT during and after the pandemic. Finally, it is noteworthy that it was a period of many difficulties, doubts and uncertainties, but also of possibilities.