Digital skills in engineering teachers. A challenge imposed by the COVID 19 pandemic

Abstract

The present article is the result of an investigation that analyzes the representations that have the university professors of a Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering on the digital competences in times of covid-19. A descriptive, cross-sectional exploration with a quantitative approach was carried out in order to determine and define the digital competences presented by teachers. A quantitative methodology framed in the quantitative - descriptive paradigm was used. The instrument applied was previously validated to 320 teachers were taken those questions that corresponded to the proposed objective to inquire about four dimensions; 1) Educational Methodology through ICTs in the classroom; 2) Training of the University Professor in ICT; 3) Attitude to ICT in Higher Education and 4) Technological Literacy; it consists of 116 items. The platforms used in the virtual mode to teach and learn, became the form of communication to develop the synchronous and asynchronous sessions of classes and continue with the courses and the formation of students. In this sense, the teachers expressed a good level of mastery of Google classroon and MS Teams, but it is necessary to extend the use of other platforms.