Dra. Badilla-Quintana, María Graciela

We are living through a cultural transition, characterized by technological disruption and the erosion of the modern ideology, which are redefining the behavior of citizens in their physical and digital spaces. Virtuality emerges as a new human dimension, making it necessary to rethink social and educational paradigms for a new two-dimensional citizen. In this context, the psychometric features and validation procedure of an instrument (B-PLE) for analyzing Personal Learning Environments (PLE) in students of higher education institutions in the Biobío Region of Chile are described. There were four phases to the validation method: (i) content validity, as determined by six experts in education and ICT; (ii) pilot test, with a non-probabilistic sample of 327 subjects; (iii) principal components analysis (PCA); and (iv) confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The results of the dimensional analysis made it possible to define the structure of the new instrument, explaining 72% of the total variance. The reliability analysis yielded an alpha coefficient of 0.92. The confirmatory factor analysis showed fit indexes that support the proposed theoretical model. In conclusion, the instrument was composed of three latent variables: Open learning (OL), with six questions, Information management (IM), with two questions, and Knowledge creation and transfer (KCT), with three questions.

Contemporary society is going through a cultural transition that leads to new conceptions about the ways in which human beings organize socially and communicate. This process of deep social and cultural transformations is characterized by a technological disruption, in which virtuality forms a new dimension that behaves as an extension of human intelligence. This new form of human interaction impacts on the social imagination, demanding one to rethink social and educational paradigms for the two-dimensional citizen. In this context, this research article describes the sociological importance and the process of social adaptation of users to a personal learning environment (PLE). It includes the validation process of an instrument for the study of the PLE of 8th grade students belonging to 15 schools in the Biobío Region of Chile. A PLE is a frame of reference that can help to understand how two-dimensional citizens socially adapt and influence the sustainability of local and global systems. The validation method for this instrument considered four stages: i) Expert judgment: considering the opinions of six educators and experts in information and communication technologies (ICT); ii) a pilot test: that included a non-probabilistic sample of 472 subjects; iii) a principal components analysis (PCA); and iv) a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The Questionnaire on Work Habits and Learning for Professional Futures and the Context Questionnaire SIMCE TIC were used as a reference. When performing a psychometric analysis, a Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.89 was obtained. This confirms that the adaptation of the instrument is good. The results of the dimensional analysis help us define a structure for the new instrument considering three components that explain 55% of the total variance. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed adjustment indexes that support the theoretical model proposed for the PLE study. In conclusion, the instrument was composed of three latent variables: Open self-regulated learning (OSRL) with eight questions, information management (IM) with four questions, and creation and transfer of knowledge (CTK) with four questions

El dominio de la tecnología es fundamental para los estudiantes de pedagogía para proponer estrategias metodológicas, didácticas y evaluativas que les permita responder adecuadamente a las demandas del sistema educativo actual. Esta investigación se enfoca desde una perspectiva cuantitativa, con aportes cualitativos, a través de un diseño no experimental descriptivo, a conocer cuál es el nivel de adquisición de las competencias tecnológicas (TIC) de los estudiantes de la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción (UCSC) en cinco dimensiones relacionadas con el uso e implementación en contextos personales y pedagógicos. La muestra se constituyó de manera aleatoria por 681 estudiantes pertenecientes a seis especialidades de las cohortes 2007, 2009 y 2011 de: pedagogía en educación general básica, educación de párvulo, educación diferencial, pedagogía media en lenguaje y comunicación, pedagogía media en inglés y pedagogía media en biología y ciencias naturales. Los principales resultados indican que los estudiantes poseen un nivel adecuado de competencias TIC requeridas por el Gobierno de Chile; sin embargo, las dimensiones “pedagógica” y “gestión del conocimiento” son las que presentan mayores debilidades. Además, las percepciones de los estudiantes se enfocan a resaltar la necesidad de una formación con mayor apoyo de tecnologías, tanto en la aplicación como en su integración curricular.