Impact of E-Learning on Literacy Learning in the New Academic Normality

Abstract

The research of this topic is important at national and international level because it analyzes what happened on March 11, 2020, date on which the World Health Organization declares the coronavirus pandemic; in the same declaration several actions such as forced confinement, social distancing and paralysis of face-to-face activities around the world are provoked. Education was not the exception, challenges were created to comply with academic tasks of all kinds; unfortunately, it was expected that certain areas of education would face great difficulties such as the process of reading and writing. This research visualizes the process of teaching and learning of literacy in virtual education during the new academic normality, diagnoses the process of training and acquisition of knowledge virtually during the pandemic, determines the predominant difficulties of literacy in post-pandemic and analyzes the impact of virtual education during the pandemic. From the qualitative method, it is possible to assess the impact of educational learning on students at the national level through three phases: Phase 1 establishes a diagnosis of the virtual teaching of literacy, Phase 2 determines the predominant difficulties of literacy in post pandemic, and finally, Phase 3 analyzes the impact of virtual teaching during the pandemic. With respect to the above, the data collection instruments applied to 120 basic education students of a public institution in Ecuador were validated through external peer review. The results obtained are the diagnosis of virtual teaching during the COVID 19 pandemic, predominant difficulties of reading and writing in post pandemic, analysis of the reeducation of reading and writing in post pandemic. Finally, the results were socialized with the teachers in order to support the educational processes in literacy.