Keywords
ICT uses, higher education, communication channels, teaching resources, educational research
Abstract
This paper explores the uses of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the universities of Castilla y León. We believe that the integration of ICT in the universities is essential for the development of a university system in line with the requirements of the knowledge society. This piece of work must be placed within a research that has analyzed the use of ICT in higher education in the universities of Castilla y León. In our view, the uses of ICT in higher education are one of the main key indicators for its level of integration. With this research, whose goals relate to ascertaining the level of integration of ICT in the universities of Castilla y León, we seek to identify the factors that influence the use-avoidance of ICT by the professors, and to describe the uses that they do of ICT in the development of their profession (teaching and research).For this reason, we have conducted an ex-postfacto research with a descriptive and improvement-seeking motivation. Even though the results of this research highlight the widespread use of ICTs within the universities, they also point out that this use is superficial and indicate a lack of actual integration of ICT in the universities of Castilla y León.
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Baelo-Álvarez, R., & Cantón-Mayo, I. (2010). Use of information and communication technologies in Castilla & León universities. [Las tecnologías de la comunicación en las universidades de Castilla y León]. Comunicar, 35, 159-166. https://doi.org/10.3916/C35-2010-03-09