Distance education through remote teaching during COVID-19 in an academic nursing masters: experience report

Abstract

Objective: to describe distance learning with the use of educational technologies in the academic master's degree in nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: descriptive study type of students' experience report about distance learning due to COVID-19. The study period took place from June to December 2020. The study was based on Paulo Freire's pedagogy, based on the principle of dialogicity, as an essential proposal for the construction of the teaching-learning process through distance learning. The teachers conducted the classes following a dialogical-pedagogical concept. Result: Distance Learning was challenging and the use of active technologies made it possible to continue the master's classes through the use of digital technologies and tools. Conclusion: until the strategy was consolidated, it was observed that the educational activities were satisfactory, as it made it possible to seek beyond the pedagogical and theoretical knowledge, the understanding of technological resources.