The importance of ICTs for students as a competence for their future professional performanceThe case of the Faculty of Business Studies and Tourism of the University of Huelva

  1. Alfonso Infante Moro 1
  2. Juan Carlos Infante Moro 1
  3. Julia Gallardo Pérez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Huelva
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    Universidad de Huelva

    Huelva, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03a1kt624

Journal:
NAER: Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research

ISSN: 2254-7339

Year of publication: 2019

Volume: 8

Issue: 2

Pages: 201-213

Type: Article

DOI: 10.7821/NAER.2019.7.434 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

To date, the knowledge and use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) has become an almost essential requirement when someone wants to find employment in our society. For this reason, this study aims to analyze the importance that students of the Faculty of Business Studies and Tourism of the University of Huelva (Spain) give to the acquisition of ICT skills for their future professional performance and the domain they have over them (achieved throughout their years of learning). This research is developed through a questionnaire completed by 90 students of the Faculty and concludes that in general they give these ICT skills the importance that they deserve and that their domain goes in parallel (except for some skills that show formative need), even being able to observe that in the majority of cases the dominion of these skills is tied to the importance that they give them.

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