Teaching creative careers in the pandemic A study of digital tools used by university instructors

During the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the major concerns at the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de America Latina (UCAL; the University of Sciences and Arts of Latin America) has been to keep offering high-quality education with effective teaching methodologies and creativity at its core. This article aims to describe and understand the use of digital tools for class preparation, synchronous encounters, storage, interaction, collaborative work and assessment by UCAL's instructors in creative careers. It finds that instructors were pro-active about learning and using a variety of digital tools. Gamification apps and interactive boards were instructors' favourites because they tended to motivate their students the most. No statistically significant associations were found between tool selection and course, sex, or age. Based on the evidence, this article will propose general guidelines for a training plan for instructors.