The Contribution of Digital Portfolios to Higher Education Students’ Autonomy and Digital Competence
Education is continuously evolving, even more with rapid technological advances and the needs and possibilities detected from the COVID-19 pandemic experience. In the current social context for higher education students, their need to have skills and competences related to autonomy, is increasingly...
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| description | Education is continuously evolving, even more with rapid technological advances and the needs and possibilities detected from the COVID-19 pandemic experience. In the current social context for higher education students, their need to have skills and competences related to autonomy, is increasingly acknowledged, and they must be capable of conducting better self-regulated learning. Digital competence is another elementary value to tackle with quality education: not only for online and hybrid modalities, also in face-to-face teaching and learning, the use of digital tools is proven to enrich the process and make learning more efficient. Among the resources explored in education, one of the most valuable are e-portfolios or reflexive digital portfolios. Thus, this study intends to give response to the following two questions in the context of students in higher education: is the experience of the use of a digital portfolio related to the promotion of autonomous competence? How is the use of digital portfolios related to digital competence? The sample is gathered within a European project; 355 students from six universities of five countries responded to a questionnaire. The main results confirm that students that have used e-portfolios appear more likely to be autonomous and also show remarkable differences in some items of their digital competence, compared with those that have not used e-portfolios. Not all responses point at significant differences, but at least for given aspects, we affirmatively conclude that e-portfolios may ease the learning process in terms of digital and autonomous competences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-674af47c44ec46fe981666348799c31c2023-11-19T00:52:06ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022023-08-0113882910.3390/educsci13080829The Contribution of Digital Portfolios to Higher Education Students’ Autonomy and Digital CompetenceJordi Mogas0Ana María Cea Álvarez1Carlos Pazos-Justo2Department of Pedagogy, Faculty of Teaching Sciences & Psychology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Campus Sescelades, Carretera de Valls, 43007 Tarragona, SpainDepartment of Romance Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Universidade do Minho, Campus Gualtar, R. da Universidade, Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, PortugalDepartment of Romance Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Universidade do Minho, Campus Gualtar, R. da Universidade, Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, PortugalEducation is continuously evolving, even more with rapid technological advances and the needs and possibilities detected from the COVID-19 pandemic experience. In the current social context for higher education students, their need to have skills and competences related to autonomy, is increasingly acknowledged, and they must be capable of conducting better self-regulated learning. Digital competence is another elementary value to tackle with quality education: not only for online and hybrid modalities, also in face-to-face teaching and learning, the use of digital tools is proven to enrich the process and make learning more efficient. Among the resources explored in education, one of the most valuable are e-portfolios or reflexive digital portfolios. Thus, this study intends to give response to the following two questions in the context of students in higher education: is the experience of the use of a digital portfolio related to the promotion of autonomous competence? How is the use of digital portfolios related to digital competence? The sample is gathered within a European project; 355 students from six universities of five countries responded to a questionnaire. The main results confirm that students that have used e-portfolios appear more likely to be autonomous and also show remarkable differences in some items of their digital competence, compared with those that have not used e-portfolios. Not all responses point at significant differences, but at least for given aspects, we affirmatively conclude that e-portfolios may ease the learning process in terms of digital and autonomous competences.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/13/8/829digital competencedigital portfolioshigher educationstudents’ autonomy |
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| title | The Contribution of Digital Portfolios to Higher Education Students’ Autonomy and Digital Competence |
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