Digital Competencies in Collaborative Learning of Students in a Public University in Lima

Abstract

Recently, traditional education is experiencing a digital transformation shift, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. This process generates in students the need to strengthen digital competences through the practice of collaborative learning. The objective of the research was to determine the impact of digital competences on the collaborative learning of students at a public university in Lima. The study was a basic, causal correlational, non-experimental, cross-sectional design. The population was 1,150 undergraduate students from the School of Education of a public university in Lima and the sample consisted of 289 students. The descriptive results showed that digital competences are at a middle level (44.3%) while cooperative learning is at a regular level (36.3%). Finally, it is concluded that digital competences have a significant influence on collaborative learning, with Nagelkerke’s R2 value (0.704) demonstrating that the proposed model explains this influence.