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The Challenge of Teaching Amidst COVID-19 in Brazil

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Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions (ICL 2020)

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This work is a portrait of online education provided to students during the pandemic of COVID-19 in Brazil. This aims to analyze the beginning of the change from presential classes to online classes. This work was completed in the first week of June, which according to the resources of epidemiology is before the peak of contamination. The educational year in Brazil starts between the end of February and the beginning of March, and presential classes were interrupted in the middle of March. With this situation, there was no time to plan how to develop the online classes and this should be solved while the online classes are developed. This work presents a survey answered only by teachers and professors that are teaching in online classes in Brazil. This research aims to highlight the difficulties, reality, and challenges faced by these education professionals, in a country with so many social differences.

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  1. IFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Cassia Isac

  2. CEFET/RJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Aruquia Peixoto

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Isac, C., Peixoto, A. (2021). The Challenge of Teaching Amidst COVID-19 in Brazil. In: Auer, M.E., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions. ICL 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1329. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68201-9_21

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