Analysis of virtual didactic skills in teaching online university classes, during the contingency of COVID-19

As well as all the universities in the world, the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT) had to move rapidly from face-to-face education to online education, adapting its face-to-face class sessions to a virtual format to be able to attend students during the contingency of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this sense, a quantitative study with a descriptive transectional design was carried out with the aim of analyzing the virtual didactic skills based on a methodology supported by the T-PACK model which were mostly developed by teachers (N=87, Age: M=33.91, SD=7,699, Max=51, Min=20) from the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT) who completed the Program in Virtual Learning Environments from 2014 to 2019 and imparted online classes during the COVID-19 contingency in the period from March to April of the year 2020. Based on the above, the following hypothesis was formulated: The teachers who completed the Diploma in Virtual Learning Environments from 2014 to 2019 at the UAT, show outstanding / good or regular / deficient competences in the T-PACK model in their distance professorship during the COVID-19 contingency. The results show that teachers presented outstanding skills in their distance teaching during the contingency, and furthermore, no significant differences (p>0.05) were found between male (N=51, Age: M=35.84, SD=7,298, Max=50, Min=20) and females (N=36, Age: M=29.33, SD=4,980, Max=49, Min=20) in none of the dimensions of the T-PACK model.