La comunicación horizontal como metodología activaun recurso eficaz para el aprendizaje en Ciencias de la Información

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This doctoral thesis focuses on the study of communication as the backbone of the teaching-learning process, more specifically, on how different communicative models are adopted depending on the teaching methodology to be applied. For this reason, this research is limited to the disciplines of Information Sciences, Education and Information and Communication Technology. This study analyses the relationship between communication and education through digital teaching competences in which social, technological and institutional factors are involved in their development. In this way, this work compares the higher education model in Spain and Finland in the field of Communication to examine how these competences are implemented in universities in both countries.The theoretical framework is based on the consolidation of the European Higher Education Area in Spain and Finland. The technological advances that condition the lifestyle of citizens in the European Union are analysed to subsequently investigate how the use of technology affects the application of active methodologies at university. In this sense, these methodologies study the use of digital resources and communication-based dynamics to improve the university teaching-learning process. All of this is framed within the situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, it is studied how the communicative process develops in a classroom context in teachers and students at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Helsinki...