When migrating from face-to-face education to remote education during the COVID 19 pandemic, did we have access to a computer, internet, and electricity service?

Abstract

The appearance of the SARS-CoV-2 health contingency, better known as the COVID-19 pandemic, caused the temporary closure of educational centers in Mexico and the adoption of a remote class model, this work tries to investigate the access they had to the internet, computers (cell phones or tablets) and electricity service, teachers and two groups of chemical engineering students, one who was in the first semester and the other in the fourth semester of the degree when the health contingency began and with it the confinement for students and teachers. The work was carried out with students (20 from the first semester and 16 from the fourth semester)) and teachers (17 from the first semester and 9 from the fourth semester) from an institution in the southeast of Mexico, of medium socio-economic level, who were I apply a survey. The results show that, despite being of a medium socioeconomic level, the majority of teachers and students had no problem accessing a computer, an internet connection and electricity service.