Media empowerment through e-learning. Design and validation of a scale
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2017.ene.05Keywords:
E-learning, Online education, Media literacy, Active citizenship, Digital empowerment, Media empowerment, Social inclusion, Critical thinking, Media, Civil society, Scale, SurveyAbstract
The current ease of online education allows students to acquire the professional and personal competencies demanded for the XXI century. In this article we study the media empowerment of students, as citizens, using multiple means of communication. We have established the first scale for the measurement of such empowerment, analyzing the exercise of active citizenship and the use of various media, as skills acquired through e-learning. The study was carried out with alumni of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (n=544), constructing a consistent and reliable scale for the two subscales that comprise it: active citizenship (5 items, α = 0.93) and diversified use of media (3 items, α = 0.95).
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