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Transcript of Skills and limits of ICT uses in higher education students
XVI Workshop Qualitative Research in Psychology La Laguna, 26th‐28th
February 2015
SKILLS AND LIMITS OF ICT USES IN
HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS
Carmen RicoyUniversidad de VigoTiberio Feliz‐Murias
UNED ‐ Spain
INTRODUCTION
• ICTs• Skills • Uses • Limits • Higher Education • Students
State of the art
• Hepp, Hinostroza, Rehbeine, & Laval (2004)
• Tondeur, Van Braak, & Valcke (2007)
• Ellis & Goodyear (2010)• Bajt (2011)• Jones (2012)• Tierney (2012)• Yahaya, Yahaya, Ramli, Hashim, & Zakariya(2010)
RESEARCH DESIGN
• Questions• Data collection:
– Written narratives– Interviews– Discussion groups
• Aquad www.aquad.de
Questions
• Which are the competences of university students in ICTs use?
• Which are the benefits and difficulties?
CONTEXT & SAMPLE
• University of Vigo– DEGREES
• 75 students• Faculties
– Education • (9 M + 38 W)
– Business • (4 M + 16 W)
– Engineering • (6 M + 2 W)
RESULTS
STUDENTS’ COMPETENCES
MEANS
7 61
203
4
2852
3011 5
0
20
40
60Digital camera
Consoles
GPS
Audio
eBook
External memoriesMobiles
Laptop
Smartphone
Tablets
TV
BENEFITS
• Academic tasks• Information search• Information management• Communication• Mobility• Collaborative activities• Engagement• Cheap
DIFFICULTIES
• Rural residents• Connexions• Cost of devices• Specific software
Software difficulties
0
5
10
15No knowledge
Technicalldifficulties
language
Licences
CONCLUSIONS
• Main competence for employment
• Most of real skills are related to ICTs
• Most used: Laptop• Academic demands determine
• Technical difficulties of devices and software
• Problems: economical and geographical
PROSPECTIVE
• Contingency analysis• Improvements and solutions
• Good practices
Thank you very much