Teaching experience in emergency remote teaching in graduation health courses

Abstract

The covid-19 pandemic has impacted several sectors of society. In education, it changed the development of the educational process with social isolation and the suspension of classes. Strategies were adopted to avoid losses in the teaching-learning process. The implementation of emergency remote teaching (ERT) allowed activities to continue virtually through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Therefore, this article aims to analyze the teaching experience in ERT in undergraduate health courses at federal universities in Minas Gerais. This is research with an exploratory-descriptive qualitative approach, the result of a master's thesis. Data were collected between May 2021 and April 2022 using a form and semi-structured audio-recorded interview. 31 teachers participated in the study. This data was analyzed with the help of the Iramuteq software and three categories emerged from this analysis: teaching experience in implementing ERT; teaching-learning in ERT and the use of ICTs and the challenges and potential in implementing ERT. It was evident that the implementation of the ERT was a challenging experience and brought limitations during its development, compromising teaching-learning in health, but it contributed to the use of Information and Comunication Technologies (ICTs) in an attempt to make it dynamic and globalized.

Keywords: Teachers. Training of human resources in health. Pandemics. Public health.