Perspectives on the information and digital competence of Social Sciences students and faculty before and during lockdown due to Covid-19

  1. Dora Sales 1
  2. Aurora Cuevas-Cerveró 2
  3. José-Antonio Gómez-Hernández 3
  1. 1 Universitat Jaume I
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    Universitat Jaume I

    Castelló de la Plana, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02ws1xc11

  2. 2 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

  3. 3 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Revue:
El profesional de la información

ISSN: 1386-6710 1699-2407

Année de publication: 2020

Titre de la publication: Investigación en Información y Comunicación

Volumen: 29

Número: 4

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3145/EPI.2020.JUL.23 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccès ouvert editor

D'autres publications dans: El profesional de la información

Résumé

We analyze the perceptions of Social Sciences faculty about their own information and digital competence and that of their students, as well as the changes that have occurred as a consequence of the virtualization of learning caused by the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19). The methodology used is qualitative, being based on the application of two techniques: discussion groups carried out with experienced faculty from three Spanish universities, and interviews carried out with the same sample after the suspension of face-to-face teaching. The results show that the faculty members participating in this study have a critical vision of the information and digital competence of the student body, indicating that they lack capacity for evaluation, critical use, and communication of information despite their mastery of technological tools and extensive use of mobile devices. In addition, they doubt their own ability to train students in this competence, and attribute the difficulty in achieving and promoting such learning to various factors of the university culture: a lack of coordination among teaching staff, who are sometimes in situations of job insecurity, or the way in which the European Higher Education Area has been applied in universities. Faculty recognize the basic and transversal nature of this competence and advocate its incorporation into the real work methodology of all subjects, not in a segregated way. Finally, the effort made towards the “virtual” development of teaching as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic has been a shock for faculty, who declare a positive attitude towards reviewing their own digital-informative practices to adapt their teaching, but believe that this has hardly resulted in any improvement in the information and digital competence of their students so far

Information sur le financement

This research is part of the project “Innovation and training in information competences of Social Sciences faculty and university students. Model for the development of programs in a mobile environment” (CSO2016-80147-R), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness.

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