The challenge of ICT in education in times of pandemic

Abstract

Introduction. ICT in the educational environment in times of the pandemic is a highly topical issue worldwide, a subject of study that is in full development, and consequently, it is little analyzed. Objective. Description of the scientific production on ICTs in education during 2020. Materials and methods. Bibliometric study, quantitative type, descriptive, retrospective design, with a final sample of 70 research articles, in indexed journals speaking in Spanish in the Scielo, Dialnet and Redalyc databases, to organize and process the collected information, Mendeley was used as bibliographic manager. Results. It was identified that, the database with the highest publication of journals is Scielo (28%), the highest production of journals at education levels occurs at the basic level (33%), in terms of the country with the highest production of articles It has been Ecuador (19%), in relation to the publications of the research type, it is the quantitative type (31%) that occupies the greatest study interest and on the most used research design is the descriptive one (34%). Discussion. According to the descriptive study on