Online communication in synchronous and asynchronous education in pre-university

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 “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.