Evaluación de carga mental en docentes a tiempo completo de una universidad privada de la Ciudad de Quito, en el período académico 2020-3, en el marco del Covid-19

Abstract

In a supposed system of checks and balances between the negative and the positive, between optimism and pessimism, in short, between the good and the bad that marks the current era in which humanity is living, the balance is most likely to tip to favor of the latter, not only because of the level of difficulty and complexity that characterizes the world, but also because of the uncertainty, anguish and even, for a great majority, despair. In the field of education, the use of technology and in particular of the internet and digital devices, although it has opened new horizons to ensure quality and project better models through the production and stimulation of virtual or blended environments that could be more effective for achieve academic and social expectations, deepen the social differences and contradictions that characterize our countries due in particular to the lack of own developments that emerge and adjust to our culture, becoming real obstacles, in many cases insurmountable, fundamentally, due to inequalities that prevent the benefits of scientific and technological advances from reaching the entire community, affecting the field of education that in the case of Ecuador, constitutionally, has been elevated to the category of collective law. The pandemic caused by Covid-19 has further complicated the outlook, the education system, in general, has been forced to find alternatives to provide urgent responses, in order not to paralyze its services. One of them, without doubt, the most important and widespread has been the improvised imposition of tele-education and telework. The research proposed in this thesis, seeks precisely to identify the most outstanding aspects of the mental load applied in a group of university teachers in a private university based in the city of Quito, capital of Ecuador. By using the FPSICO 3.1 methodology. The results showed higher rates of mental load in the teachers, for which an Intervention Plan was drawn up with the aim of reducing and mitigating their affectation.