Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The confinement of 137 million students from all the countries of the region exposed deep crises that had been ignored for years: social and economic inequalities, lack of internet coverage, disproportion in the distribution of technological media. In this context, one of the consequences has been that more than 3.1 million students have not returned to schools and a third did not receive adequate training. In this sense, this research has had as its main objective to determine the consequences, challenges and opportunities caused by COVID-19 in primary and secondary education in Latin America, especially Colombia and Panama. His interest was focused on studying the main factors that contributed to reinventing education systems and the opportunities created by the crisis. For this, the qualitative research methodology was followed with emphasis on documented analysis. Regarding the process for data collection, it was supported by the reading of official documents of entities or scientific communities widely recognized for their rigor. The criteria under which the information collected was systematized were: consequences, challenges and opportunities that the pandemic unveiled in the Colombian-Panamanian educational sector. Among the results are listed, first: The Latin American countries were not prepared for the crisis; Second: Although there were determined efforts by governments and civil society, many of them were insufficient to alleviate the situation; 3: COVID-19 pushed education systems to explore teaching-learning techniques that must continue to be used and 4: training processes, after the pandemic, will not be the same. In conclusion, although a pandemic is not desirable in any setting, in the case of education, despite the deep crisis it generated, it created a space that invites Latin American nations, especially Colombia and Panama, to explore it.

The changes introduced by the Covid-19 pandemic have generated changes in educational processes in general and in the evaluation process in particular, where the actors must resort to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to mediate the process of compiling the necessary evidence to measure academic performance. The objective of this research work was to identify the problems that university students perceive in the evaluation of their performance, in virtual learning environments (EVA), due to the Covid_19 Pandemic. It is becoming clear that the world was not sufficiently prepared to deal with a crisis caused by a pandemic, and both public and private organizations, have been affected. Higher education does not escape this reality, the evaluation process being the foundation of educational quality. Using a quantitative and qualitative methodology and a field research model, an online instrument (survey) was applied to a sample of 160 students (32%) from the International University of Science and Technology (UNICyT). The results obtained allow us to identify that 61% of the participants presented some change with their evaluation processes of their subjects or modules due to the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, among the factors that were indicated, highlighted by the students are Internet failures when it rains and intermittent lack of Internet. It has concluded that there are several causes that hinder the evaluation process of students in virtual learning environments or under the modality of distance education with new technologies. Internet services and electricity service respectively occupy important values, Internet and failures in electricity service together add up to 60%.

The Ocoa Bay is exposed to the occurrence of seismic events, that generate tsunamis. Tsunamis events that have occurred in the past, such as October 18, 1751 and May 11, 1910, are clear examples of the destructive potential of tsunamigenic events in the study area. In recent years, economic growth in the region has increased as a resulted of hydrocarbon exploration, mining, and tourism activities, among others, which has led to an increase in population, infrastructure for services, transportation, energy, etc. This causes a concentration of exposed assets to the occurrence of a tsunamigenic events with the potential to cause severe damage. Given this scenario, it is essential to identify flood-hazard zones in case of tsunamis occurrences, which can be represented by tsunami flood hazard maps for different return periods, including events which could potentially occur in the study area or in the simulation of an event with exceptional historical characteristics. For the identification of potentially dangerous zones, seismic data were selected for the elaboration of a local seismic hazard model. Based on this model, an earthquake catalogue of the study area was created and the seismic sources generating tsunamis were characterized according to a seismic zonation classification. Likewise, a map of the distributed seismicity of Ocoa Bay was presented considering the geological structures and local tectonics.

The challenging reality of teleworking produced by the pandemic that began in 2020 has brought changes in the dynamics of organizations, triggering health and economic problems, being the cause of it, the COVID-19 virus (Tyler, C., Campines Barría, F., & González Jiménez, T. 2021). This study analyzes the competencies present in teleworkers from the perspective of their leaders and the application of good practices at the organizational level because of the measures taken to avoid the spread of the COVID-19 virus that affected the work area, in that sense, companies saw the need to send employees to the telework modality. The research is descriptive, field, transitory, the sample was made up of 110 employees of companies in Panama who answered an online questionnaire and were working in telework or mixed days. The results obtained suggest that the competences related to self-motivation, being self-taught with new technologies are occasionally affected, only 29.2% feel that they develop their creativity and autonomy, and 27.8% that they can effectively comply with rules and policies, likewise, compliance with policies or the achievement of objectives compared to work at headquarters is also observed with a notable decrease. Teleworkers project a low initiative and independence to resolve the conflicts presented and work with more stress and demands in the fulfillment of their daily work, being well-being the most affected when teleworkers report that only 8.3% can maintain a balance in their family and work life.

Formal education aims to transmit knowledge, values and skills to students, in a social and individual context where problems can occur that affect the educational process, such as sedentary lifestyles, stress, lack of social relationships and commitment to study. Given that the regular practice of dance improves the general well-being of people, the objective of this systematic review is to know how this activity is applied in the educational context and what benefits it brings. The PRISMA methodology was used to carry out the review. Pub Med, Science Direct and Web of Science databases were consulted, using the keywords "dance, school, college, students", between the years 2012-2021. After applying the inclusion/exclusion criteria, 11 articles were selected for a complete analysis. Dance is applied in the form of after-school programs, with one or more sessions of between 60 min to 90 min per week, to improve the physical, emotional well-being and social relationships of students. In the case of university students, the practice of dance improves indicators of stress and depression. The application of dance in the educational context can contribute to the integral formation of students in a pleasant environment, which can maximize the learning experience.

This article is the result of a research focused on an experience on the role of emotions in mathematics education carried out in the Master's Degree in Psychopedagogy at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana de Medellín, Colombia in 2019, with students of basic primary education in a public school in the city. The main objective of this article is to know the role of the emotional factors that favor the learning of mathematics, based on its study at the level of basic primary education. To do this, from the theoretical review we proceeded through group interviews and participant observation. The results obtained showed, in relation to the students involved, that apathy and rejection or attraction towards mathematics are determined, in an important way, based on the approvals or disapprovals of tasks and tests of that subject, which conditions the treatment that from now on they will receive from the teachers. This indicates the interest in studying the imbrication of emotions in this area of ​​primary basic education and the need to establish the level of their incidence in mathematical learning from the beginning of schooling.

To sensitize university students and awaken in them a social conscience that every professional must generate in their daily lives, the Universidad Internacional de Ciencia y Tecnología has included in all the curricular meshes of the Higher University Technician, Bachelor and Engineering that offers the subject called Community Social Extension Internship (PESC in Spanish). This paper describes the CFSP process and its relationship with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the projects developed in 2020. Despite the pandemic caused by COVID-19, 23 projects related to, at least one SDG were developed. All 17 SDGs could be included and the most frequent were SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth), SDG 4 (quality education), SDG 10 (reduction of inequalities), goal SDG (health and well-being) and SDG 12 (responsible production and consumption).

Quality Leadership University presents to the educational community volume 1 of issue 15 of the year 2022 of the journal Latitude: Multidisciplinary Research Journal, issue in which articles developed by teachers, students of Quality Leadership University and international researchers are published. This new presentation of the journal deals with topics related to social sciences and education.

In maritime transport activities, various methods and techniques are used to assess the risks of operations, where a broad classification corresponds to simplified methods and complex methods, such that the complex are sub-classified into qualitative and quantitative. In bunkering or barge-ship fueling operations, both simplified and complex methods are used, each with its particular characteristics, but in common they all seek to assess risks by offering data and information, which allow the generation of plans and actions to eliminate or minimize incidents and accidents in these operations. This research work studied the complex qualitative method called failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) applied to bunkering, following a descriptive-level documentary-type methodology, in other words, the analysis was qualitatively described of failure modes and effects in the risk assessment applied to the systems used in the fuel loading operation called bunkering. The search, selection and content analysis on the study event of the units or documents, which as a result were 8, was carried out in 2020. The categories established for the thematic analysis emerged from the theoretical review of the works of authors such as the International Marine Contractors Association [IMCA], International Maritime Organization [IMO], International Naval Surveys Bureau [INSB], among the most prominent. One of the conclusions of the study is: the most common effects resulting from the analysis are the partial or total loss of the functionality of the component, subsystem or system in general; fuel clogging, spillage or contamination; possibility of fire; impossibility of establishing communication between the barge and the ship, and between the personnel of the same barge; and loss of fuel pump pressure.