Online education in Spanish-language courses: from ERT to possibilities for the post-pandemic period

Abstract

Due to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19), it was necessary to adopt Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) to minimize the impacts of social isolation on education. Thus, educational activities, once entirely classroom-based, started to be carried out through online digital technologies. Therefore, in this article, we discuss innovative practices emerging in higher education from the ERE, more specifically, through two objectives: i) Describe the active methodologies and their possibilities in a post-pandemic context, and ii) Propose hybrid teaching in an undergraduate degree in Spanish Language. We draw on Colvara and Santo (2019), regarding the flipped classroom approach in higher education, and on Horn and Stalker (2015), Bacich and Moran (2018) and Filantro and Cavalcanti (2018) for the discussion of active methodologies and blended learning. As a result, we suggest that teachers in higher education institutions (HEIs) should integrate the educational digital resources (EDR) into their practices to create a multimedia narrative for their subjects. In the final considerations, we present guidelines for a blended learning model in an undergraduate course.