Experience of working in digital distance mode in a postgraduate programme of the academic unit of higher education

Abstract

The events of the health contingency period clearly exposed the potential of alternative modalities to face-to-face education, such as digital distance education. In accordance with this, the work that is presented here investigates the perception of the students of a postgraduate programme of the Academic Unit of Higher Education of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ),  This qualitative research is based on the method of systematisation of experiences, by means of a questionnaire applied to the students of the programme.The document argues from concepts such as distance education, the implications of mediation through digital technologies, as well as some models that compose it as virtual, online and hybrid learning. Another of the guiding concepts is active learning and its link to distance education. Some of the results obtained show the importance of considering transactional distance in the design of the seminars, for which it is important to take into account the communication and accompaniment given to the students, as well as the need to diversify the methodologies and strategies with which the courses are developed, concluding with the acceptance of working in a digital distance modality and the relevance of the postgraduate programme having its own proposed model to face the new educational challenges.