Plataformas educativas y la educación a distancia en la virtualidad

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have intervened in all human activities and education has not been the exception. In higher education, educational platforms have proven to be very useful in virtual education, forced by the pandemic caused by covid-19. To be effective, these educational platforms must combine ICT, teaching strategies and an institutional IT support team. Therefore, both students and teachers must modify the roles to which they were accustomed and become active and participatory, self-reflective and self-regulating actors. The purpose of this work is to propose teaching strategies to generate meaningful learning in virtual distance higher education, in times of the pandemic caused by covid-19. It is research with a qualitative, phenomenological and descriptive approach. A group of teachers from the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP) were interviewed about the teaching strategies applied in their academic development in this time of pandemic. Selecting those that best adapt to the virtual model and that can be developed through educational platforms in higher education. Reaching the conclusion that it is necessary to reflect on the teaching practice and question the student and the teacher of the digital age.