Improving Future Teachers’ Digital Competence Using Active Methodologies

Carmen Romero-García, Olga Buzón-García and Patricia de Paz-Lugo
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Carmen Romero-García: Department of Didactics of Mathematics and Experimental Sciences, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Olga Buzón-García: Department of Didactics and Educational Organization, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Patricia de Paz-Lugo: Department of Didactics of Physical and Health Education, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 18, 1-15

Abstract: Contemporary society demands a university education based on active and participatory educational models that enable the development of competences, with digital competence being amongst the most demanded ones. This work presents the results of an educational innovation at the university level. It intends to analyse whether the implementation of an active methodology supported by technological tools in a virtual classroom contributes to students’ digital development. A quantitative methodology with a pre-experimental pretest-posttest design was used. The sample comprised 30 students studying the Curriculum Design module on the Biology and Geology Specialism of the Master’s in Teacher Training at the Universidad Internacional de la Rioja. The results show an improvement in the five areas of the digital competence specified by the Common Framework for Teachers’ Digital Competence (MCCDD) established by Spain’s National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (INTEF), with a large effect size. It is concluded that the educational experiment implemented has enabled an increment in the level of digital competence of future teachers.

Keywords: digital tools; digital competence; active methodologies; information and communication technology; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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