The essay shown below deals with a very general topic such as didactics in Higher Education. Its fundamental objective is aimed at analyzing its didactic principles and some elements of the university's teaching-learning process with the new paradigms that are being imposed on a global level, which in turn rely on various sources of notable theorists that have evolved as makes society. The method rested on the review and analysis of different theoretical sources of a documentary nature and their relationship with the subject, which at the same time appear in the references. In it, no rigid schemes have been drawn nor formulas are provided when dealing with specifically qualitative elements, however, some suggestions are offered that directly link the so-called Knowledge Society with the necessary didactic changes that require active ways so that the student becomes an actor and creator o...

This study aims to establish the relationship between instrumental digital competencies and virtual education in times of covid-19. Its approach is quantitative, descriptive, correlational, and cross-sectional. The population consisted of 5940 students from 7 faculties of a public university in Lima and Valle, distributed in 53 study programs of the 2021-I academic cycle. A representative probability sample of 360 was established. It was found that there is a significant relationship between instrumental digital competencies and virtual education in times of covid-19. (With a p < 0.05) finding a Spearman's Rho correlation = 0.778 considerable positive correlation.