Luengo-Aravena, Daniela, Cabello, Patricio and Rodriguez-Milhomens Bachino, Beatriz (2024) Online collaborative problem-solving as a tangible outcome of digital skills in technical and vocational higher education. Computers and Education, 218. ISSN 0360-1315
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In today's world, specific skills are essential for success in work and life. Educators, governments, and industry leaders recognize collaborative problem-solving (CPS) and digital skills as necessary for the 21st century. However, our current understanding of these skills' interconnection and development within technical and vocational higher education remains limited. This study aims to achieve two main objectives. First, we want to examine the level of digital skills among technical and vocational higher education students in Chile and how it relates to their socioeconomic background. Second, we aim to investigate how students' different levels of digital skills influence their satisfaction with online collaboration and their assessment of group processes after completing an online CPS task. The study identified three distinct groups of students based on their digital skills: high-skilled, medium-skilled, and low-skilled. The low-skilled group faced more socioeconomic disadvantages compared to the other two groups. Moreover, students with low digital skills reported lower satisfaction with online group work and a poorer self-evaluation of the group processes involved in the collaborative online task. Insights for technical and vocational higher education institutions to foster targeted support of digital skills development for their student body are discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2024 Elsevier |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | L Education Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2024 16:24 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2024 04:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/123772 |
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