USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN BRAZIL
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COVID-19, Google Forms, Word, Excel, PowerPointAbstract
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the pedagogical structure of education, requiring teachers to use information and communication technologies (ICTs). However, there were challenges to this implementation, such as the lack of physical space and difficulty in using the tools. Therefore, the objective of the present study is to assess the knowledge of teachers from public and private higher education institutions in Brazil regarding ICTs. A survey was conducted using Google Forms and included 146 teachers. The first set of questions was used to characterize the sample and the second set was used to assess teachers' knowledge of ICTs. The level of comfort with tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Google for Education was used to measure the teachers' knowledge of ICTs. Spearman's correlation was used to analyze the association between the teacher's age and their knowledge of ICTs, and Fisher's exact test was used to compare the differences in ICT knowledge between public and private institutions. In general, it was observed that teachers have a good mastery of ICTs, with no significant association between the teacher's age and their knowledge of the tools (p > 0.05), and no difference in ICT knowledge between teachers from public and private institutions (p > 0.05). It can be concluded that higher education professors from public and private institutions in Brazil have a good knowledge of ICTs.
Keywords: Google Forms; Word; Excel; PowerPoint; COVID-19.
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