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
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