Abstract:

During the Covid all institutions Spain shifted their lessons to digital environments as well as all the possible relations between professors and students. All teachers accepted the new situation due to the Covid-19 related emergency but the way they reacted was mixed for several reasons, psychological as well as pragmatic. The post Covid situation had been quite ambiguous especially for traditional-style institutions like URJC: they have a huge number of buildings and laboratories destined to host thousands of students but, due to the emergency, they adopted educational policies to avoid students filling them. Professors attitude has been similar: most of them declared a strong desire to go back to the pre-Covid situation albeit they enjoyed the possibility of meeting their colleagues or to manage their students’ receptions directly online. In the present post-covid reality Universities’ authorities decided to cancel the online option to fill again the classes and the buildings. But in the name of freedom in teaching, professors can still adopt a blended approach in their teaching as an alternative of a completely f2f style to do lessons. What is the attitude of professors in Spain on this aspect? To answer this question the Erasmus+ SOULSS project partnership distributed in the academic year 2022-23 a survey to explore the way professors are doing lessons or plan to do. The total number of answers allow us to provide an overview of the COVID-19 emergency legacy in the field of digital learning in Hispanic HEI.

Keywords:

Spanish HEI, Online learning, Post-Covid world.