Students in pandemic: a glimpse from autonomous learning

Abstract

Autonomous learning is a concept that refers to training students as lifelong learners, with the ability to take control over their own learning process. The year 2020 has shown the need and urgency to promote skills that allow students to be self-managed and regulate their learning processes, including the development of skills to plan their activities and self-evaluate. In this current emerging context, it is necessary to ask ourselves, as teachers, how can we support students in fostering these skills, which of these should be considered as priorities and which ones should be promoted, either because there is a deficiency in them or a greater interest among young people, and how can we, as teachers, help students in its training.

With the objective of generating viable options in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic, an investigation was initiated on the students’ level of autonomy in Mexico. To do this, during May 2020 we applied the “Autonomous learning survey in times of COVID-19”. This work presents the results of such exploration.

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