Abstract

CONTRERAS-ESPINOSA, Ruth Sofia  and  EGUIA-GOMEZ, Jose Luis. DISCORD AS AN ONLINE TEACHING PLATFORM DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. Revista da FAEEBA: Educação e Contemporaneidade [online]. 2022, vol.31, n.65, pp.106-120.  Epub Oct 25, 2022. ISSN 2358-0194.  https://doi.org/10.21879/faeeba2358-0194.2022.v31.n65.p106-120.

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 platform1.

Keywords : online teaching; learning; pandemic; COVID-19.

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