Higher education in times of pandemic: the perspective of students at the University of Madeira

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https://doi.org/10.53628/emrede.v8i2.800

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Higher education., Covid-19, remote teaching

Abstract

 This text presents preliminary data of an investigation on the impact of distance learning during the pandemic. The objective is to understand the difficulties of students and determine what challenges the suspension of all teaching activities posed to them. In person, this communication is based on data resulting from a questionnaire survey, applied in partnership with the Student’s Union of the University of Madeira and its Observatório da Vida Estudantil. The analysis of the data allows rehearsing a portrait of the main challenges, difficulties and dilemmas, highlighting the concern with the conclusion of the degree and the entry into the labour market and, simultaneously, with the effects of social confinement on welfare and  mental health.  

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Author Biography

Andreia Micaela Nascimento, Instituto de Ciências Sociais

Sociologist and Director of the Department of Culture of the Academic Association of the University of Madeira (AM). Graduated in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Lisbon, graduated in Communication, Culture and Organizations, Master in Cultural Management from the University of Madeira, with the dissertation When identity (dis)unes them - The social and cultural projection of the Maritime, National and Union in Madeira between 1910-1926, 1945-1955 and 1974-1987/88, she is a PhD student in Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She is an integrated non-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and a member of the research group LIFE: Life Paths, Inequality and Solidarity: Practices and Policies. His research interests lie in the areas of Education and Youth. She is the co-author of the Research Brief The Freshmen of the University of Madeira: Portraits and Some Challenges, published by the Permanent Youth Observatory (2018) and the works Nacional, 1910-2010: Album of the Centenary (2010) and Max, the Genial and Restless Artist ( 2014). She is co-coordinator of the essay 31 Desafios para o Ensino Superior (2019) and has been a speaker at national and international conferences and congresses. She has integrated several research projects and has actively participated in the publications of Imprensa Académica, editorial seal of AM, integrating the editorial review team of texts.

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Capa da revista com o logotipo da EmRede no topo, seguida do título dessa edição: a educação em rede e a inovação responsáveis em tempos de pandemia. Indicação do volume 8, número 2 de 2021.

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2021-12-30

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Nascimento, A. M. (2021). Higher education in times of pandemic: the perspective of students at the University of Madeira. EmRede - Distance Education Journal, 8(2), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.53628/emrede.v8i2.800

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021): A educação em rede e a inovação responsáveis em tempos de pandemia

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Dossiê A educação em rede e a inovação responsáveis em tempos de pandemia

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