Discord as an online teaching platform during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Autor(a) principal: Contreras-Espinosa, Ruth Sofia
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Eguia-Gomez, Jose Luis
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Revista da FAEEBA (Online)
• DOI: 10.21879/faeeba2358-0194.2022.v31.n65.p106-120
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.uneb.br/index.php/faeeba/article/view/13086
• topic: online teaching, learning, pandemic, COVID-19; enseñanza en línea, aprendizaje, pandemia, COVID-19; ensino online, aprendizagem, pandemia, COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the Spanish authorities to declare the state of alarm and suspend face-to-face education, which lead to the search for new alternatives to meet the educational demand. This study describes the experience of 20 professors from the School of New Interactive Technologies of the University of Barcelona during the first months of digital teaching with the Discord platform. Discord enables creating multiple sequences of classes, reduces system load, and can be used on various low-resource platforms and devices. Through the direct observation of classes, interviews, and a literature review, we studied (1) the online teaching skills of professors prior to the pandemic; (2) the use of Discord and teaching techniques; (3) the problems detected, and (4) their recommendations. These results may help other professors organize online teaching in critical contexts with Discord as a virtual teaching platform[1].   [1] Marta Acosta Plata