Burnout in the Virtual Teaching of Higher Education Teachers: A Psychological Perspective

Abstract

This literature review article focuses on the detailed analysis of exhaustion in virtual teaching in higher level teaching in order to know about the problems or different ways to reduce this variable and be able to achieve our functions or activities normally and effectively. The study is conducted qualitatively with a phenomenological approach. We want to determine how is the exhaustion in virtual teaching in different areas of education and to be able to evaluate different measures or possible strategies to be able to help teachers to face different adversities left by the pandemic. Different references of articles, theses, books etc. were used that were fundamental as a theoretical basis to compare with the different results obtained in the evaluations. It is recommended that teachers can participate in different meetings to make decisions or manage the essential factors within the institution: emotional exhaustion, admiration, educational management, pedagogy to optimize functions within these areas in order to maintain emotional stability and be able to face the different adversities left by the pandemic and be able to face them whether you are a teacher or student.