Digital technology and higher education in the context of the pandemic
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This text addresses the issues affecting the construction of emerging forms of social relations in the context of the development of digital technology, in particular social networks and multimedia and tridimensional collaborative spaces. The discussion is set in the context of higher education during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. The article considers psychosocial effects in the context of the rapid changes associated with new forms of social coexistence and management of educational processes. Consequences for individual cognitive process are also discussed, as well as changes in institutional policies that may lead to the transformation of the university as a social and educational institution.
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