ICT: PBL online pharmaceutical physical chemistry update experiences of teachers baby boomers and millennials

The experiences and opinions of a group of Baby Boomers and Millennials professors are presented with the use of technologies, learning, experimental data management, communication, and empathy during an online Pharmaceutical Physical Chemistry training course.With the teaching strategy of learning based on problems, teachers coordinated by the instructor solve the problem: What is the shelf life (expiration date) of an extemporaneous preparation of aspirin stored in refrigerationthrough PBL cycles. With data from a virtual experiment, they solve the problem using the Excel worksheet, where they perform calculations and graphs. They then answer a Likert satisfaction survey.The results indicate that the Teachers Baby Boomers and Millennials who take online training courses observed that teachers have the tools such as computer and internet, as well as an adequate space to take the course. However, find it difficult to obtain apprenticeships, mathematical treatment of experimental data, as well as communication between their peers and with the teacher than when taking courses in person. These difficulties are greater in teachers of the Baby Boomers generation than the Millennial generation. The difficulties that teachers havewhen taking online courses will allow them to understand the problems presented to students during the online learning teaching process.Due to the emergence of delivering all online courses through the COVID-19 pandemic, there are problems and challenges for academic staff that require ever higher levels of technological competence, better communication skills and online teamwork, to obtain better learning and thus improve the online teaching and learning process.