Why Offer Information and Digital Competency Training in Higher Education?

Manuel Area Moreira

Abstract


Why offer information and digital competency training in higher education? The answer is simple: because universities should offer citizens a higher education that, among other goals, trains them to become competent individuals to face up to the complex challenges of culture, knowledge, science, economics and social relations in the 21st century.


Keywords


information and digital competency; information; digital technology; higher education



DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7238/rusc.v7i2.976

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