Uso de las herramientas digitales en la educación virtual en Ecuador

Education changes with the passing of time, in the modern age schools and universities emerged, including the teaching given by church professors, until the diversification of classes that could exercise the right to education given by governmental models such as democracy. All these changes transformed several human paradigms, among the recent changes of the contemporary age, we found: secular education, and virtual education, the latter became potentialized thanks to a global event. In the year 2020, humanity faced a critical situation that had not been experienced for more than six centuries, since the emergence of the Black Death in Eurasia in 1347-1353. The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted “normality”, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), leading countries to take restrictive protective measures, including the suspension of face-to-face classes in all educational institutions. Thanks to this event, digital tools were essential for the intellectual and economic development of the world, among those used was the e-learning platform that allowed teachers and students to interact with each other. However, there coexisted countless homes in which buying a technological device or hiring internet service was not possible, either because of the economic situation or geographical location, they could not access virtual classes, which led them to make monetary sacrifices such as: loans or mobilizing to places where the signal could reach.