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Emergency Remote Learning During COVID-19: Socio-educational Impacts on Portuguese Students

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Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions (ICL 2020)

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The pandemic caused by COVID-19 is not just a global crisis, it is ‘the first’ global crisis, and as the mandatory confinement shifted all education to Emergency Remote Instruction/Teaching/Learning, Higher Education Institutions were faced with the heavy task of balancing the immediate massive technological-pedagogical request by teachers and providing students with the socio-educational support that they need. This paper analyses the socio-educational impacts of the current confinement period on student’s lives and how they are responding to implemented ERL solutions, specifically in a stage of abundant pressing changes in which critical challenges are mostly felt. A close-ended questionnaire was built, comprising six dimensions of issues that may impact ERL: educational and organizational issues, technological and working conditions, social issues, family-related issues, psychological issues, and financial issues. Results were collected right after the first month of ERL and reveal that the most severe problems reside on the pedagogical and psychological domains.

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This work is financed by Portuguese national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, under the project UIDB/05422/2020.

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  1. CEOS.PP, ISCAP Polytechnic of Porto, Rua Jaime Lopes Amorim s/n, Matosinhos, Portugal

    Luciana Oliveira, Arminda Sequeira & Adriana Oliveira

  2. Polytechnic of Porto and Algoritmi RC, Rua Jaime Lopes Amorim s/n, Matosinhos, Portugal

    Anabela Mesquita

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Oliveira, L., Mesquita, A., Sequeira, A., Oliveira, A. (2021). Emergency Remote Learning During COVID-19: Socio-educational Impacts on Portuguese Students. In: Auer, M.E., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions. ICL 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1328. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68198-2_28

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