Integrating the Digital Paradigm in Higher Education: ICT Training and Skills of University Students in a European Context

Rosa, Juan David Concepción; Bucheli, María Guadalupe Veytia; Galán, José Gómez; Menéses, Eloy López

doi:10.18562/ijee.048

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“…For example, also using the COBADI ® instrument, and although they did not have the same goal and will present much lower samples, we can refer to the works of Vazquez-Cano et al [8], Concepción et al [80], or Olmedo et al [81], with similar results to those obtained in terms of time of use by students in different countries in this geographical area. In addition, other research provides us with information on time of use.…”

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Time of Use and Patterns of Internet Consumption in University Students: A Comparative Study between Spanish-Speaking Countries

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Today, the processes of virtualization in higher education are decisive. The digital paradigm has an enormous influence on the university world, and will have even more in the future. Knowing how students access the Internet, how they consume it and how long they use it would be of great value for university policy, to facilitate the proper integration of information and communication technologies (ICT). The main objective of this study is to determine the time of use of the Internet by university students in different Spanish-speaking countries in the last eight years (2012–2019). It also aims to determine whether belonging to a common cultural space has an influence on this fact. The broad sample was composed of 2463 subjects from Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. The results show that there is no homogeneity in the time of use and consumption patterns among the countries analyzed. The particular elements and social habits of each specific country, and multiple variables within each of them, condition their use. In conclusion, it can be argued that the integration of ICTs in university contexts is a very complex phenomenon in which multiple factors are present. In this sense, the sustainable educational policies of each country—and even of each university—must focus on their characteristics and idiosyncrasies. Importing practices from other countries, or attempting to apply common patterns of integration, may not be effective because of differences in the very different variables present in each.

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Time of Use and Patterns of Internet Consumption in University Students: A Comparative Study between Spanish-Speaking Countries

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“…[103][104][105][106], for which much progress has been made in recent years [106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113], it is possible to carry out preventive actions. In the field of pedagogy, work has been done for years to achieve media literacy that will allow students at all educational levels, including higher education, to develop critical approaches towards the power of influence of digital media [27,[114][115][116][117][118], although unfortunately, educational policies do not have a bearing on this problem. It is also necessary that universities provide clinical and support services to university students [119][120][121].…”

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Social Networks Consumption and Addiction in College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Educational Approach to Responsible Use

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Within the framework of digital sustainability, the increase in Internet consumption, and especially online social networks, offers social benefits, but is not without its drawbacks. For example, it can lead to psychological and/or psychiatric disorders in some people. Numerous researches are highlighting the similarities of these addictions with the consumption of toxic substances. University students are heavy users of the Internet and, in certain situations, addiction to online social networks can be the result of depression, harassment, and anxiety, among others, affecting their daily life, including their academic responsibilities. In recent months, an anomaly has occurred that may have contributed to intensifying this problem, namely the confinement produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected the whole world to a greater or lesser extent. In this cross-sectional study, with a descriptive and quantitative methodology, students from 14 Spanish universities were investigated in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to understand the effects of this situation on the problem described. The results show a high consumption of social networks during that time, with significant incidences of addiction. In parallel, the presence of comorbidity has been determined. In this scenario, it would be necessary to implement university educational programs to redirect these addictive behaviors, as well as preventative recommendations and actions to minimize negative impacts. This is a major problem that is growing, exacerbated by the global pandemic produced by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Situations of this gravity call for the development of preventive and educational measures for the responsible and sustainable use of ICT.

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“…In terms of validity and reliability, the results have always been excellent, both in Spain [75] and its adaptations in different Latin American countries [79][80][81]. In this context, it has been widely used in multiple studies for different objectives, all of them in relation to the competence, use, and consumption of ICT by students in higher education [82][83][84][85].…”

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Open Innovation during Web Surfing: Topics of Interest and Rejection by Latin American College Students

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Martínez-López

Lázaro-Pérez

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Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The university is currently involved in complex processes of open innovation through permanent dialogue with institutions and companies in the economic, social, and political fields. Professors, researchers, students, and other members of the institution take part in these processes. This is a phenomenon that has emerged in today’s network society due to digitalization and globalization. It is therefore essential, in this context of open innovation, to know the behaviors, habits, consumption, or lifestyles of university staff and students to achieve, in the best and most effective way, integration of higher education in this new reality. How we interact and communicate with the surrounding people has transformed with wider access to the Internet and the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially through smartphones and the use of apps and social networks (WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, etc.). This digital revolution has reconfigured our interests, dispositions, and social participation. From the university field, knowing the interests of students who access the Internet is of vital importance to guide teaching methodologies, adapt content, facilitate communication processes, develop digital literacy practices, etc. The present research, focused on the Latin American sociocultural space, has a double objective: (GO1) to know which are the issues of most interest and consumption for university students; (GO2) to determine which issues they reject while they surf on the Internet. A quantitative research has been developed (n = 2482) based on the validated questionnaire COBADI®. The topics of greatest interest to the Latin American university students were, in this order: “use of social networks”, “news”, “music”, “education”, “work”, and “videos”. The fact that they put education in fourth place, as students, shows that it is not a high priority in their use of the network. On the opposite side, those that show more rejection are “celebrity journalism”, “online games”, and “pornography”. Among their topics of rejection is also “politics”, which is not prioritized by university students. These topics have been presented in different proportions according to the country analyzed, depending on their specific social and political circumstances, and have experienced a different evolution from 2012 to 2019—the time covered by the study.

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Integrating the Digital Paradigm in Higher Education: ICT Training and Skills of University Students in a European Context

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Time of Use and Patterns of Internet Consumption in University Students: A Comparative Study between Spanish-Speaking Countries

Time of Use and Patterns of Internet Consumption in University Students: A Comparative Study between Spanish-Speaking Countries

Social Networks Consumption and Addiction in College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Educational Approach to Responsible Use

Open Innovation during Web Surfing: Topics of Interest and Rejection by Latin American College Students

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