Teaching Presence in Virtual Scenarios in Higher Education in Arequipa

Abstract

The evolutionary process of information technologies with didactics in higher education have never been synchronized processes, considering that the accelerated technological transformations left traces followed by pedagogical adaptations, however, the violent outbreak of the COVI19 pandemic made it more evident that distance, generating scenarios of full virtuality, with traditional pedagogical systems; The objective of the research is to assess the presence of the teacher in the virtual auditorium, identifying the motivation and trust relationships of the students in order to reconsider an optimal virtual scenario. The study analyzes the levels of confidence and the motivations generated by the visual perception of the teacher, the participation of 128 students of communication sciences from the specialties of Public Relations and journalism; the temporal perspective is transectional of the descriptive type, with a quantitative approach. Among the relevant findings, a high level of indifference of the students is perceived, in turn, the teacher's response has a pessimistic ingredient, the proportionality of their presence is lower and the trend is limited, so it is proposed to assume strategies to redefine the scenario. virtual, taking into account the levels of student satisfaction.