Análisis de las competencias digitales de los docentes (CDD) de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN) en el contexto de la emergencia sociosanitaria causada por el covid-19..

Abstract

In march 2020, due to virus COVID-19, Ecuador underwent a change in the normal course of higher education, the State authorities announced the suspension of face-to-face teaching in universities, forcing all educational institutions and their teachers to transition to online teaching. The National Polytechnic School had to face the challenges of the transition, noting the relevance of teacher training in the use of technological tools and especially that they are competent in the digital environment so that the impact of this transition is less. Faced with this context of socio-health emergency, the purpose of analyzing the digital competencies of teachers of the National Polytechnic School (EPN) arose, through a self-assessment based on a questionnaire developed in Spain and validated for the Latin American context. This instrument was sent to a sample of EPN teachers and the responses allowed measuring the level of digital competence with respect to the years of experience, age and gender of each one, finding similar results to other research related to the same topic. The results showed that most teachers have an expert level in digital competencies; however, when analyzing the competencies with respect to their dimensions, there was evidence of opportunities for improvement in the management of digital tools, as well as that age is inversely proportional to the level of self-perceived digital competency and that years of experience and gender are not related to this level.