(2076)EVALUATION OF THE VETERINARY STUDENTS (UNIVERSITY OFMURCIA) ICTS EQUIPMENT AND ICTS TRAINING

摘要

Nowadays, the Higher Education Students must be provided with a properly ICTs (Information andCommunication Technologies) equipment and ICTs skills to face the daily teaching/learning activities.Thus, improvements in the educational quality are not possible without ICTs inclusion. In this sense,Universities have promoted innovative experiences supported by ICTs, like the Virtual LearningEnvironments. Therefore, factors as Students’ ICTs equipment and ICTs training must be consideredin order to characterize the student profile. This research was conducted in the Veterinary Faculty ofthe University of Murcia (Spain), with the aim to get some information about the Students’ ICTsequipment and ICTs training. An amount of 177 surveys was obtained during the year 2010. One ofthe items evaluated was the Social Networks belonging. Thus, the 82.30% of the students belonged tothe Tuenti Social Network, and the 56.60% to Facebook. On the other hand, the 99.40% of thestudents had a personal computer and the 87.60% had an Internet connection from its habitual placeof residence. About the ICTs skills declared by the students, the mean reached a value of 3.29(SD=0.80) in a Likert scale from 1 to 5. In conclusion, the ICTs equipment and ICTs training showedby the Veterinary Students (University of Murcia) were high.