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The Transformation of ICT Education with this New Normality after Pandemic in the University of Guadalajara, Mexico

Araceli Duran-Hernandez, Ilse Segura-Duran, Judith Mireya Cornejo-Macias, Francisco Javier Lopez-Cerpa

It`s the changed that education made and the introduction of Informatic Technologies (ICT), gave in a drastic way to get ahead with external healt factors such as the pandemic (COVID-19) It`s importat to say that the University of Guadalajara has a proyect named B-learning, this with the objetive tthat the students can work and studie at the same time, they have to go only twice at week. On 2019 it was a pilot test, that became a reality, but the problems come up because here in Mexico we are use to go to school and have classes face to face and also we use ITC just for social media and we don’t use it for learning or educational tool. Early January 2020 this proyect had a lot of competitive advantages for the University of Guadalajara and now all this proyects are being structured, this just for the purpose to support all the students. Previously the University had inverted classes, this means the student explain all the topics for the class and the professor help with all doubts. In another aspect, courses were taught as they were previously called mixed and today with the name of hybrid education. This research are the results of the investigation we did on February 2020 to December 2020, we tried to explain how evolve hybrid education at the University of Guadalajara. The most important is doing the cultural change in the education of Mexico, we tried to explain that it’s possible to make hybrid education and we can make the entire student more competitive. Beside all those closed companies, we think in alternatives for new jobs and strategies to maintain business.

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 – Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
PP: 71-89