Cuadernos de Documentación Multimedia (Jun 2018)
Identificación de capacidades digitales en estudiantes y docentes universitarios del área de humanidades. Digital capabilities identification in university students and teachers from liberal arts.
Abstract
This article analyzes the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in university teachers and students in the liberal arts area, whose main objective is to know their current reality in skills and abilities in the use of digital tools, understanding in finding quality information and the ability to generate effective digital educational content. The results allowed the derivation of a Digital Capabilities Diagnosis instrument (DICADI), whose application constituted a niche, in which all the respondents said they had contact with ICTs and, even when, important digital gaps were identified between the groups of research, these were not significant, however, allowed to reflect on the challenges in the proper use of ICT, towards the ideal achievement of maximum profit, in order to increase academic productivity in various areas of education.
