Meza-Intriago & Vásquez-Giler (2021)
ABSTRACT
These last years have been very decisive for society, following the declaration of the Covid-19
pandemic, by the WHO, many activities were transferred to virtual spaces, one of them is
education. Everything in the curriculum had to be rethought in order to comply with the teaching-
learning process. Universities, as well as other institutions, were in need of urgently developing,
in teachers and students, digital skills in the different virtual platforms, from this arose a number
of trainings that allowed them to develop in the virtual world focused on education. Online
communication through virtual platforms has been the sustainability tool to boost education in
times of health crisis; as a result, the question arose, how does synchronous and asynchronous
communication influence the teaching-learning results of the members in the pre-university of the
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Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí” during the period 2020-2? In order to carry out a
descriptive analysis of the proposed research through the qualitative method. To carry out virtual
education in pre-university, ULEAM used the Moodle, Microsoft 365 and Zoom platforms, where
teachers and students developed digital skills to interact in this process, however, the level of
mastery with which they used these digital teaching resources is located between a medium-high
level, this form of education and the use of digital tools are very necessary and important to
achieve meaningful learning, it is because of what many students express that teachers must
prepare more to be the guide of their students.
Keywords: Online communication, synchronous and asynchronous education, virtual platforms,
digital teaching resources, virtual teaching-learning.
1. INTRODUCCIÓN
La sociedad en general se ha tenido que adaptar a las nuevas herramientas
tecnológicas para establecer comunicaciones bidireccionales que les permitan
llevar a cabo una constante interacción, estos avances tecnológicos han tenido
su mayor importancia y necesidad en estos tiempos de pandemia, donde muchas
actividades tuvieron que emigrar de lo tradicional a lo virtual.
La presente investigación abordó temas como el de la comunicación en línea
aplicada en la educación sincrónica y asincrónica del preuniversitario de la
Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, (en adelante Uleam), la actual forma
de enseñanza - aprendizaje es aquella que se ha da de manera virtual por medio
de las diferentes plataformas virtuales, en este sentido se dará un enfoque desde
la educación, que tanto docentes como estudiantes han tenido que adecuar la
forma de brindar y recibir los conocimientos, esta forma de comunicación virtual
permite que los individuos se enlacen, informen, analicen, cuestionen, debatan
y compartan temas de interés, en cualquier lugar y en cualquier momento, lo que
ha sido denominado como “auto comunicación de masas” (Castells, 2009).
Conforme a lo mencionado, esta comunicación entrelaza a los involucrados para
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