Title
Developing students’ digital competences in the era of digital transformation - a European perspective
Authors
[ 1 ] Politechnika Bydgoska | [ 2 ] Wydział Zarządzania i Dowodzenia, Akademia Sztuki Wojennej | [ P ] employee
Scientific discipline (Law 2.0)
Year of publication
2025
Published in
Article type
scientific article / paper
Publication language
english
Keywords
EN
- Digital competences
- Students
- Development
- Digital transformation
- Information
PL
- Kompetencje informacyjne
- Kompetencje medialne
- Transformacja cyfrowa
- Studenci
Abstract
EN Digital competence is an extremely important topic, especially in this age of digital transformation, where not only humans, but also technology in the broadest sense, have a part to play in the rendering, transmission of information. On the one hand, tools such as AI and ICT facilitate work and education, but on the other hand, they make some of the key digital skills recede into the background, which will adversely affect the future - e.g. career shaping. Some even equate digital competence with the ability to use social media, which often becomes a source of information for them. This article focuses on 3 areas of digital competence: information, communication and content creation. The research has been conducted over the past three years on a sample of 173 second-semester undergraduate students at the Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology. The results indicate that students consider digital competences related to the area of information, communication and content creation to be helpful in the course of their education. The research focused on nine key skills in this area, which were also the focus of the study. Recognising fake news and being able to refute it was considered the best mastered skill, while the least mastered skill was finding statistics related to a topic. An additional benefit of shaping digital competences in practice was the possibility to maintain a social media account on scientific topics related to the field of study. This made the learning process more attractive, but also brought some difficulties. Importantly - for the majority of the respondents, the acquired skills will play a role in the future - probably not only at the educational stage, but also in their future work.
Pages (from - to)
4304 - 4314
License type
CC BY-ND (attribution - no derivatives)
Open Access Mode
publisher's website
Open Access Text Version
final published version
Release date
06.11.2025
Date of Open Access to the publication
at the time of publication
Full text of article
Access level to full text
public
Ministry points / journal
5
Ministry points / conference (CORE)
70
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