Education in COVID times: what the teaching institutions are doing according to online media

The situation experienced with the Covid-19 pandemic in the first semester of 2020 in the world impacted nearly all human activities, including education, whose face-to-face modality became unfeasible. A documentary research was carried out through online media in newspapers, magazines and news portals in order to verify whether it is being implemented by educational institutions in Brazil, in the midst of the pandemic, with the steps suggested by the literature, which are: analysis of the organization, diagnosis of the target audience, definition of the intended project, preparation of teaching materials, preparation of the virtual environment, control and evaluation of the experience by students and documents. In addition, we also verified how the difficulties faced are present in other studies. We observed that the necessary steps for implementing distance education presented in the literature are not being totally followed (focusing on the creation of teaching materials) and that the difficulties most often faced are also distinct: concern about poorer students, younger ones and adaptation by parents. Finally, a matrix based on the preparation/background with distance education vs. a complexity of the teaching-learning process is presented directing towards possible teaching strategies.