Digital skills in teachers of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Adventist University of Bolivia

Abstract

The development of digital skills has become vitally important due to the rise of new teaching technologies. In recent times, online classes was the option educators have chosen. In this context, teachers’ digital skills needed an assessment in order to know how they are developing educational processes mediated by teaching technologies. This is a descriptive study. It had 29 participant teachers from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Adventist University of Bolivia. This study applied the Tourón & Martín questionnaire. The questionnaire assesses five dimensions: Information and Digital Literacy, Communication and Collaboration, Creation of Digital Content, Security, and Problem Solving. Two six-point Likert-type scales were used to assess the teachers’ knowledge and use of digital skills. The result shows a level reached of 63% in knowledge and 58% in the use of teaching technologies. It also shows a high and proportional correlation between the two areas of assessment.

Keywords: Digital skills, teaching, technology