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Systematic Review on Digital Competence in the Spanish Context

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The widespread use of information and communication technologies has accelerated profound changes in society. This has prompted education systems to adapt to these changes. These responses focus on digital competence. The general objective of the study is to analyse the evolution of digital competence in the Spanish context. This study has followed a bibliometric methodology. An analysis of 286 documents extracted from Web of Science has been performed. The results show that only two lines are observed that stand out from the rest. These are the cases of “digital competence-ICT-students” and “teacher-education_educational-technology_teacher-digital competence.” This indicates that over time the research focus has shifted to the use of technological resources in students and teachers. It can be concluded that the subject of study focused on digital competence in the Spanish field is being established from 2018 to the present, with its lines of research focusing on pedagogical teaching methods, technological resources and on the agents involved in training processes. This refers to the skills required by students and teachers for them to be able to successfully conduct training processes using technology. This study has been funded by the project Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on Andalusian university students. Reference: CV20-01,248.

Keywords

  • Systematic review
  • Spain
  • Web of science
  • Digital competence
  • SciMAT
  • DIGCOMP
  • Digital skills

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Moreno-Guerrero, AJ., Marín-Marin, JA., López-Belmonte, J., Churi, P. (2022). Systematic Review on Digital Competence in the Spanish Context. In: Tomczyk, Ł., Fedeli, L. (eds) Digital Literacy for Teachers. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1738-7_23

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