Analysis of Interpersonal Competences in the Use of ICT in the Spanish University Context

Esteban Vázquez-Cano, Manuel León Urrutia, María Elena Parra-González and Eloy López Meneses
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Esteban Vázquez-Cano: Department of Didactics and School Organization, Faculty of Education, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 28040 Madrid, Spain
Manuel León Urrutia: University of Southampton, Web and Internet Science Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO171BJ, UK
María Elena Parra-González: Universidad de Granada, Department of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education, Facultad de Educación, Economía y Tecnología de Ceuta, Universidad de Granada, 51001 Ceuta, Spain
Eloy López Meneses: Department of Education and Social Psychology, Area of School Organization and Didactics, Pablo de Olavide University, 41013 Sevilla, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 2, 1-12

Abstract: This article analyzes Higher Education students’ development of interpersonal competences when using Information and Communication Technologies. The participating sample was made up of 1490 students from three Spanish universities: Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), Pablo de Olavide University (Spain), and National Distance Education University (UNED). The data were collected through a questionnaire called “Basic digital skills 2.0 of university students” COBADI ® (Registered trademark: 2970648). A factorial analysis was performed to determine possible groupings of representative factors and subsequently the trees technique was applied by running the CHAID (Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detector) algorithm. This made it possible to develop a map of possible differences between universities, ages, and gender of students. The results showed that university students have higher competences in communicating through interactive presentations and video-images, as well as in collaborating and working with documents online through mobile devices.

Keywords: digital competence; educational innovation; interpersonal competences; university; Spain (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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