Abstract:

The health situation occurred worldwide in 2020 has been a drastic turning point in our usual way of life. Changes in society and health restrictions imposed a virtual teaching model at all educational levels, including the higher education. In an almost improvised way, it was necessary to adopt new teaching-learning models that would allow some continuity in the academic year.

The improvement of the health situation allowed that the 2020-21 academic year began, in the Spanish university system, in its face-to-face teaching modality again, with both the convenient restrictions and health measures. However, the apparent adaptation of university students to non-face-to-face (on-line) teaching was an important brake on their return to the classroom. The academic years following lockdown reveal an apparent disconnection of students with face-to-face teaching, with significant absenteeism rates and new requirements in relation to the virtual transmission of teaching sessions.

The challenge for higher education teachers, after a significant effort to adapt to virtual teaching, is currently the opposite; that is, to recover the presence habits of the students that existed before the pandemic. In this work some reflections on this problem are collected. Likewise, the most appropriate teaching methodologies are identified and analyzed to recover the involvement of university students with face-to-face teaching.

Keywords:

In-person teaching, higher education, learning methodologies, absenteeism.