Personal Learning Environments to understand and develop Digital Competence: analysis of University students in Spain
Abstract
Both at international and national levels itis observed that it is increasingly impor-
tant to specify digital competences in the
educational context, referring both to tea-
chers and students. If we look more speci-
fically at students, digital competence is a
broad theoretical construct that, among its
dimensions, supports the need to analyze
and enhance the Personal Learning Envi-
ronment (PLE), a construct that supports
the CAPPLE Project and that allows us to understand in a global way how students
use their digital competence in their aca-
demic learning processes. In this paper
we show the main results of the CAPPLE
Project, an exploratory study in which
an ad hoc questionnaire was used to de-
termine the strategies and technological
tools that final-year university students
(n=2,054) use in their learning processes
and communication. The questionnai-
re was validated with a triple procedure
and a Cronbach’s alpha of 0,944. The
evidence obtained allows us to demystify
the concept of the “digital native”, since
senior students integrated technologies to
communicate in their personal and leisure
spaces, but not too much in their acade-
mic activities.
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