Ethics and Online Education

Abstract

Before the pandemic, both in Ecuador and in the world, e-learning was not widely used, although it was known. This proposal is since in the post-pandemic period there has been an increase in the use, in general, of distance education, in its different modalities, with very little experience on the part of teachers in the design of courses for online or virtual education, in the various educational platforms. However, ethics, mainly from the teacher’s point of view, has not been wholly developed. The teachers’ training in the design of virtual events is necessary, together with their human capacity to relate to students and their preparation to properly use educational platforms with their dozens of internal facilities and the hundreds of existing and free Open Educational Resources (OER). This document discusses the teachers’ ethics, especially for the online modality, as an essential point, in its various perspectives.