Digital challenges in educational practice: A university professor's perspective

Abstract

The present study had the purpose of analyzing the digital challenges in educational practice from a university teacher's perspective. For this purpose, a basic research was predisposed, with a qualitative approach, which had as its main characteristic to describe and explain the facts in question. The sample consisted of five university level teachers, to whom an interview guide was applied. The data found were entered into the AtlasTi text assistance program version 9, where the relationships and co-occurrences of the subcategories and indicators belonging to the main category were determined. The results showed that digital technology is recognized as useful and serves teachers as a transit bridge to achieve an effective connection between pedagogical knowledge and the generation of content. In this sense, it was concluded that digital technologies have a positive perception among teachers, and that in general these technologies have already been adopted by the vast majority of teachers, who use it in their daily academic work, highlighting the benefit of providing immediate feedback, and an opening to different educational resources.