Impact of Covid-19 on UPC's Moodle platform and ICE's role

Joana Prat, Ariadna Llorens, Marc Alier, Francesc Salvador, Daniel Amo

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Abstract

On March 13 2020 all the Spanish population got confined at their homes, except for those working in essential jobs. For the universities, this meant to go fully online overnight, which presented a number of challenges on the operational, didactical, and pedagogical levels. This paper is about how the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and, particularly, UPC's teacher commitment reacted to the situation, making a series of decisions and actions in almost every dimension of the university activity, as seen from the point of view of the Institute of Sciences of Education (ICE), the entity in charge of the training of the professors and the management of the Learning Management System (LMS) of the University based on Moodle. This LMS plus the G-Suite, which was deployed to professors and students in just one week, became the backbone of the Virtual Learning Environment(VLE) that the University had to rely on to complete successfully the academic course. The paper takes a quantitative approach, feeding on the data logs of the VLE and making a statistical analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - TEEM 2020, 8th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality
EditorsFrancisco Jose Garcia-Penalvo
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages765-769
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450388504
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Oct 2020
Event8th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, TEEM 2020 - Virtual, Online, Spain
Duration: 21 Oct 202023 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, TEEM 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityVirtual, Online
Period21/10/2023/10/20

Keywords

  • Covid-19
  • Virtual learning environment
  • education
  • learning management system

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