Remote teaching in the pandemic context:“Para Além das Fronteiras: Videoconferênciasem RI” teaching project

Abstract

This paper analyzes the challenges faced, during the Covid-19 pandemic, by education in Brazil, especifically the adoption of emergency remote teaching by the public university. In order to guarantee quality, universal access and a link between technical, teaching and student bodies, initia-tives were taken across the country. The Teaching beyond borders: video conferencing in IR project was an initiative of the International Relations course at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel). Through a partnership with teaching and research centers, the project established its own me-thodology based exclusively on the use of digital resources and remote access. Besides, it promoted numerous remote lectures with researchers from all over the country, fostered good debates and ensured the parti-cipants’ bond, guaranteeing universal access to the material produced. In this sense, this text aims, in a critical review format, to discuss the experience of the teaching project, whose first edition took place in the pandemic context of 2020, and to evaluate the use of remote learning, observing its potentialities and limitations. Through a literature review applied to the data that resulted from the project, we consider that the use of remote learning was, for the teaching project, satisfactory in terms of content and scope, but that it should be widely discussed in order to propose teaching-learning methodologies appropriate to the format and guarantee the maintenance of the connection between participants.