The Higher Education Institutions (HEI) temporarily closed its headquarters in order to make a transition from a presence-based modality to an Emergency Remote Teaching due to COVID-19 pandemic. The article’s objective is to analyze the Ecuadorian case in the implementation of this modality, acknowledging it is not automatic rather it hampers the struggled context where the HEI have unsolved issues previous to the pandemic. This document focuses on a literature review and a historical approach on the transformation of Ecuador’s higher education policies by taking as a starting point the first evaluation of universities of 1988 in order to determine the prevailed challenges to implement the Emergency Remote Teaching, after twenty years. The paper develops as follows: (1) First, the article describes brief characteristics of the Emergency Remote Teaching; (2) Second, the paper problema...

The Higher Education Institutions (HEI) temporarily closed its headquarters in order to make a transition from a presence-based modality to an Emergency Remote Teaching due to COVID-19 pandemic. The article’s objective is to analyze the Ecuadorian case in the implementation of this modality, acknowledging it is not automatic rather it hampers the struggled context where the HEI have unsolved issues previous to the pandemic. This document focuses on a literature review and a historical approach on the transformation of Ecuador’s higher education policies by taking as a starting point the first evaluation of universities of 1988 in order to determine the prevailed challenges to implement the Emergency Remote Teaching, after twenty years. The paper develops as follows: (1) First, the article describes brief characteristics of the Emergency Remote Teaching; (2) Second, the paper problema...

The Higher Education Institutions (HEI) temporarily closed its headquarters in order to make a transition from a presence-based modality to an Emergency Remote Teaching due to COVID-19 pandemic. The article’s objective is to analyze the Ecuadorian case in the implementation of this modality, acknowledging it is not automatic rather it hampers the struggled context where the HEI have unsolved issues previous to the pandemic. This document focuses on a literature review and a historical approach on the transformation of Ecuador’s higher education policies by taking as a starting point the first evaluation of universities of 1988 in order to determine the prevailed challenges to implement the Emergency Remote Teaching, after twenty years. The paper develops as follows: (1) First, the article describes brief characteristics of the Emergency Remote Teaching; (2) Second, the paper problema...