Difficulties identified in university study processes mediated by ict

Abstract

The present work reflects research advances of a thesis, Degree in Education Sciences, whose theme is “The use of ICT in the study process in advanced university students, of the Teaching Sciences of Education and the Degree in Combined Arts, from the Faculties of Humanities and Arts, Design and Cultural Sciences, National University of the Northeast (UNNE)”. The research objective is to know the ways of taking advantage of ICT in the study processes of advanced students of the aforementioned careers, how and why they use them. The field work was carried out in 2019 in Resistencia, Chaco (Argentina), here is the analysis of data obtained in the first outing through focus groups, a qualitative technique. It focuses on advanced students who were in the last level that year, accustomed to ways of using ICT. In a previous article, those modalities of use and the reasons for doing so were exposed. The question that guides this work is what are the difficulties that students encounter when using ICT to study? The purpose of this article is to socialize results about difficulties associated with the use of ICT to study that these subjects identify, and that are constituted as emerging categories of the analysis. The students manifest four hindering aspects to consider for the use of ICT in the study processes: equipment; infrastructure for equipment and connectivity; technological-digital skills; and an undisciplined study attitude.