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Two months after the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic, near 3.7 million people were confirmed positive to the coronavirus, with 253.831 deaths.While Mankind fights desperately for survival in a critical moment in human history, most teachers had to reinvent themselves in a joint effort to avoid a complete halt in educational activities; suspended sine die around the globe.This article investigated the challenges faced by teachers, and executive education professors in Brazil, through live online classes via the Zoom platform.Key findings pointed out (i) the lack of stable online connection; (ii) security issues; (iii) limited pedagogical resources; (iv) background noises; (v) shortage of equipment supply due to the lockdowns, as barriers to online live classes dispensed with the Zoom platform.This study aims at providing scholars, teachers, professors, instructors, practitioners, online service providers, software developers, among others, with a perspective regarding the online live education experience.We also compared live virtual with classroom teaching, promoting the debate on the implications and best practices.
Dias et al. (Tue,) studied this question.