Perspectives on the information and digital competence of Social Sciences students and faculty before and during lockdown due to Covid-19

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https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.jul.23

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Information competence, Digital competence, Information literacy, Higher education, Curriculum, Social sciences student body, Students, Social Sciences faculty, Teachers, Motivation for learning, Teaching and learning strategies, Spanish universities, Spain, Covid-19, Coronavirus, Pandemics, E-Learning, Distance learning

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We analyze the perceptions of Social Sciences faculty about their own information and digital competence and that of their students, as well as the changes that have occurred as a consequence of the virtualization of learning caused by the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19). The methodology used is qualitative, being based on the application of two techniques: discussion groups carried out with experienced faculty from three Spanish universities, and interviews carried out with the same sample after the suspension of face-to-face teaching. The results show that the faculty members participating in this study have a critical vision of the information and digital competence of the student body, indicating that they lack capacity for evaluation, critical use, and communication of information despite their mastery of technological tools and extensive use of mobile devices. In addition, they doubt their own ability to train students in this competence, and attribute the difficulty in achieving and promoting such learning to various factors of the university culture: a lack of coordination among teaching staff, who are sometimes in situations of job insecurity, or the way in which the European Higher Education Area has been applied in universities. Faculty recognize the basic and transversal nature of this competence and advocate its incorporation into the real work methodology of all subjects, not in a segregated way. Finally, the effort made towards the "virtual" development of teaching as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic has been a shock for faculty, who declare a positive attitude towards reviewing their own digital-informative practices to adapt their teaching, but believe that this has hardly resulted in any improvement in the information and digital competence of their students so far.

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Sales, D., Cuevas-Cerveró, A., & Gómez-Hernández, J.-A. (2020). Perspectives on the information and digital competence of Social Sciences students and faculty before and during lockdown due to Covid-19. Profesional De La información Information Professional, 29(4). https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.jul.23

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Artí­culos de investigación Covid-19 / Covid-19 research articles