Abstract:

The various transformations marked by social, economic and political life in recent decades, have given rise to a prominent place in education, both in the education systems and in the institutions themselves as complex and modern organizations. In times of uncertainty, there are several proposals around education. It is also in this scenario and due to the pandemic we’re facing nowadays that distance education (DE) assumes a fundamental role for the development of education itself allowing students to keep learning. In addition to this type of education, and as it is already possible to return to the academic campus, we also consider face-to-face education and the mixed education regime, as options available to students. Through an exploratory-descriptive investigation with a qualitative approach based on the application of a questionnaire, it was our intention to assess which teaching modality the students of the Polytechnic Institute of Maia favor in Pandemic times and afterwards and how they justify their choice.

Keywords:

Distance learning, face-to-face education, Higher Education, mixed regime.