From International Policy to the Emerging Remote Teaching Project of the Autonomous Metropolitan University

Abstract

From the context of physical isolation brought about by the global pandemic by the virus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, educational systems needed to adjust their teaching-learning process. Under this scenario, this paper reviews the international regulatory framework that provided the guidelines and actions to be implemented by governments around the world to make decisions to address socioeconomic impacts generated by the health emergency. Particularly, we describe how an official discourse by the United Nations (UN) dictated the guidelines to make use of various devices, resources and digital platforms that would allow to continue providing the services offered at different levels and educational modalities, and how, from this official discourse, the Emerging Project for Remote Education (PEER) at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) was formed, what it consists on and how it is related to policies suggested by the UN.

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