Monitoring of the University Student Before the Virtual Modality: Vulnerabilities Observed

Abstract

This article is the result of a research carried out by the Regional Observatory for Quality and Equity in Higher Education (ORACLE) in the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Universidad Veracruzana in its Campus Poza Rica – Tuxpan, among its purposes was to know the conditions faced by students after the change. Form face-to-face educational modality to the virtual modality derived from confinement due to COVID-19. It is worth mentioning that the study had a quantitative approach; a questionnaire was applied to 160 students from the 2nd to the 10th semester of the Pedagogy educational program enrolled during the period February-July 2020. Among the results obtained, it can be mentioned that the students feel affected in different aspects, being the four main ones: educational, economic, emotional and social. Finally, it was observed that the virtual modality revealed the vulnerability of the student to have access to their classes.