Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2020;75:e2490.
COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and advances in the Physical Therapy, Speech-Language-Hearing Science, and Occupational Therapy undergraduate programs in Brazil
Alessandra G. Samelli
, Carla G. Matas
, Naomi K. Nakagawa
, Talita N Rossi da Silva
, Milton A. Martins
, Sílvia Maria Amado João
DOI: 10.6061/clinics/2020/e2490
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educational systems all over the world have been facing unprecedented challenges. The World Bank reported that an estimated 1.4 billion students were away from school in more than 156 countries (). Schools and universities implemented, with varying degrees of success, various forms of distance learning (DL) and remote learning (RL), in an attempt to diminish the educational impacts of the pandemic.
The guiding principles of RL are the same as those of the teaching and learning process in-person. This strategy is similar to DL in that the teacher and the students are not present in the same room, and that it is developed through technology, which is not the only option in DL. Moreover, DL results from planning, choosing, and developing careful and systematic instructional designs, presupposing the atemporal support of tutors, greater flexibility for students to organize their study hours, and the possibility of carrying out synchronous, asynchronous, and mixed activities—especially asynchronous ones ().
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