Impacts of Covid-19 on graduate programs in the business area: : possibilities for distance education

• Autor(a) principal: Durso, Samuel de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Russo, Paschoal Tadeu, Sousa, Luana Karoline Soares Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: CAFI (São Paulo)
• DOI: 10.23925/cafi.62.61717
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/CAFI/article/view/61717
• topic: Covid-19; Stricto Sensu; Educação a Distância; Educação; Covid-19; Stricto Sensu; Educação a Distância; Educação

This study aimed to identify the level of satisfaction of students of master's and doctoral programs in the business area with the changes introduced by higher education institutions to enable the continuity of the course in the context of the pandemic caused by Covid-19. To meet the proposed objective, a questionnaire was applied to 101 students enrolled in programs in the business area in the first half of 2020. As main results, it was possible to verify that the study participants showed, on average, a moderate level of satisfaction in regarding the adaptations introduced by educational institutions in the context of Covid-19. Furthermore, it was possible to identify that some personal characteristics (gender, marital status, age, and the number of children) and previous contact with long-term distance education courses were statistically significant to explain the differences in the motivational levels presented by the sample. It was also possible to find that the more satisfied with the changes the student was, the greater was his propensity to indicate a graduate course 100% in distance education modality to a friend. Among the main discontents in relation to the adaptations used by the institutions, was the perception of low development of the skills necessary for future work as a teacher, the perception of low interaction between students during emergency remote teaching and the difficulties to deepen knowledge in this modality of learning. The survey results allow us to reflect on the impacts of Covid-19 and the introduction of distance education in the graduate programs in Brazil.