Female university student’s ICT learning strategies and their influence on digital competence

Emerging technologies are leading to a ret hink informal education and giving rise to new educational models, especially at university level. This paper looks into the strategies used by female university students to learn ICT and how this influences their level of digital competence. To do this, we...

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Autores: Jiménez Cortés, Rocío, Visco Bosch, Alba, Rebollo Catalán, María Ángeles
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/87975
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/87975
https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-017-0040-7
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Competenicas académicas
Estrategias de aprendizaje
Internet
Estudiantes universitarios
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Resumo:Emerging technologies are leading to a ret hink informal education and giving rise to new educational models, especially at university level. This paper looks into the strategies used by female university students to learn ICT and how this influences their level of digital competence. To do this, we surveyed 368 Spanish university women aged 20 to 34, using two scales measuring their learning strategies and digital skills. The findings showed that university students used a variety of strategies to learn about ICT, with strategies based on independent and collaborative learning prevailing. Results also showed that those women who used a wider variety of strategies to learn ICT attained more advanced digital skills. These results suggest the need to incorporate these forms of learning used by women with advanced digital skills into university teaching.