How is distance education viewed today? The opinions of some teachers in a post-pandemic context

Abstract

The pandemic was an opportunity for many teachers to discover or deepen their knowledge and skills in distance education (DE). Whether they already had experience or not, they had to make the urgent transition from face-to-face to distance to adapt to the demands of public health measures. In the process, representations and opinions about DE have evolved. While the urgency with which the transition to DE was made could have worsened teachers' views of this mode of education, some data collected during a survey tend to show, on the contrary, an increase in appreciation of it at all levels of education. However, opinions are not uniform and it is possible to question the representativeness of the sample of respondents, as well as the links between representations and practices. This article merely opens a discussion that deserves to be continued in the light of other data.