TEACHING-LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic represents one of the greatest global health challenges of this century. The coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, has its transmission process from person to person, through the autoinoculation of the virus in mucous membranes, and social isolation is its main prevention strategy. The Ministry of Health, on March 19, 2020, authorized the replacement of in-person classes with remote classes. This is an integrative review research that aimed to identify the main challenges in the teaching-learning process in higher education arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and, consequently, to describe the methodological strategies facing the teaching-learning process in the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the review was conducted through the Virtual Health Library (VHL) in the following databases: LILACS, BDENF and Google Scholar, in the period of October 2020, with the keywords: COVID-19; Higher Education; Pandemic. A total of 52 articles were located, a floating reading was performed, 22 articles were selected, and only 14 articles met the proposal related to the theme of the study. The articles were analyzed according to the steps of Bandin's thematic analysis and showed two categories: Challenges in the teaching-learning process in higher education arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and Methodological strategies in the face of the teaching-learning process in the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the study evidenced, through the literature review, the great difficulty on the part of the professors in resignifying, in an emergency way, the teaching-learning process in undergraduate courses.