1 - Sebastián Senesi Facultad de Agronomía-Universidad de Buenos Aires - Programa de Agronegocios y Alimentos
2 - Hernan Palau Facultad de Agronomía-Universidad de Buenos Aires - Programa de Agronegocios y Alimentos
3 - Fernando Mogni Facultad de Agronomia UBA - Agronegocios
Reumo
Human talents are capable of innovation and design, and this capacity depends on their skills and attitudes both at individual and group levels. Training is one way to develop people’s aptitudes. As disturbances become more and more frequent, the need arises for universities to implement continuing education programs.
Disturbances are common in the business environment. This makes it very difficult for any institutional, organizational or technological design to de competitive in a sustainable way. Education is not out of new trends and perturbances, specially since the restrictions we lived since the emergence of COVID-19.
Since 2020 pandemic situation, this way of performing classes to the postgraduate students has changed: The Argentine Government installed a strict lock down due COVID-19 cases and all the postgraduate courses of the F&AP had changed in the way of teaching.
The objective of this paper is to present the changes and adaptation in postgraduate in agribusiness programs due to the restrictions in face-to-face teaching during 2020 and 2021. As a secondary objective in this paper, we collect the “voice of the student” and the “voice of the teacher” in order have feedbacks in regard the academic, organizational and learning / teaching performance during 2 years of courses.
The Food and Agribusiness Program of the School of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires is the leading postgraduate program in terms of agribusiness in Argentina. In that sense, more than 8,000 students participated in the different academic alternatives. Since 2005, students from different countries of Latin-America have been included.
The Direction and academic coordination incorporated different tools and platforms, to adapt and facilitate the student the teaching process. The voice off the student was collected by a survey after the finish of the course.