Skills and limits of ICT uses in higher education students. Qualitative research in Vigo University.

1. XVI Workshop Qualitative
Research in Psychology
La Laguna, 26th‐28th
February 2015
SKILLS AND LIMITS
OF ICT USES IN
HIGHER EDUCATION
STUDENTS
Carmen Ricoy
Universidad de Vigo
Tiberio Feliz‐Murias
UNED ‐ Spain

2. INTRODUCTION
• ICTs
• Skills
• Uses
• Limits
• Higher Education
• Students

3. State of the art
• Hepp, Hinostroza,
Rehbeine, & Laval (2004)
• Tondeur, Van Braak, &
Valcke (2007)
• Ellis & Goodyear (2010)
• Bajt (2011)
• Jones (2012)
• Tierney (2012)
• Yahaya, Yahaya, Ramli,
Hashim, & Zakariya
(2010)

4. RESEARCH DESIGN
• Questions
• Data collection:
– Written narratives
– Interviews
– Discussion groups
• Aquad www.aquad.de

5. Questions
• Which are the
competences of
university students in
ICTs use?
• Which are the benefits
and difficulties?

6. CONTEXT & SAMPLE
• University of Vigo
– DEGREES
• 75 students
• Faculties
– Education
• (9 M + 38 W)
– Business
• (4 M + 16 W)
– Engineering
• (6 M + 2 W)

7. RESULTS

8. STUDENTS’ COMPETENCES

9. MEANS
7
6
1
20
3
4
28
52
30
11
5
0
20
40
60
Digital camera
Consoles
GPS
Audio
eBook
External memoriesMobiles
Laptop
Smartphone
Tablets
TV

10. BENEFITS
• Academic tasks
• Information search
• Information management
• Communication
• Mobility
• Collaborative activities
• Engagement
• Cheap

11. DIFFICULTIES
• Rural residents
• Connexions
• Cost of devices
• Specific software

12. Software difficulties
0
5
10
15
No knowledge
Technicall
difficulties
language
Licences

13. CONCLUSIONS
• Main competence for
employment
• Most of real skills are
related to ICTs
• Most used: Laptop
• Academic demands
determine
• Technical difficulties of
devices and software
• Problems: economical
and geographical

14. PROSPECTIVE
• Contingency analysis
• Improvements and
solutions
• Good practices

15. Thank you very much