Distance Education or Emergency Remote Educational Activity: in search of the missing link of school education in times of COVID-19

• Autor(a) principal: Joye, Cassandra Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Moreira, Marília Maia, Rocha, Sinara Socorro Duarte
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/4299
• topic: Distance Education; Emergency remote educational activity; COVID-19; Emergencial education.; Educação a Distância. Atividade educacional remota emergencial. COVID-19. Educação emergencial.; Educación a distancia; Actividad educativa remota de emergencia; COVID-19; Educación de emergencia.

The objectives of this article are to describe, compare and distinguish the main characteristics between Distance Education (DE) and Emergency Remote Educational Activity, in order to deconstruct possible confusions between these two concepts. For this purpose, a qualitative study was conducte dinvolving case study about the resolutions of pedagogical actions of the institutions of basic and higher education in Ceará in the face of the social isolation caused by COVID-19. Initially, the various terminologies on DE were described, on their specific legislation and their particular characteristics. Then it was defined what would be the so-called Emergency Remote Educational Activity in face of the pandemic of the disease called COVID-19, in the face of the Brazilian reality, presenting the results of the case study in public institutions in Ceará in the period of April 2020. As final considerations it is stated that emergency remote educational activities are not configured as distance education, due to a series of factors ranging from legislation, planning, investments in structure to the training of teachers for the use of digital technologies in education. It emphasize that any implementation of an educational modality must have as a starting point the quality of student learning.