Digital skills, no matter what

Abstract

Even if we may consider that young university students are digital natives, it is not clear that they posses the skills corresponding to the level demanded as professionals with a university degree. To assess the level of digital skills of the student body and also of the teaching staff in the Bachelor's degree in Architectural Technology and Building Construction at the Barcelona School of Building Construction (EPSEB-UPC), a study was carried out connected to a Final Degree Project in these studies. Based on the results obtained, an implementation strategy and improvement of the level of skills in digital, information and communication technologies (ICT) was defined. For this, we took advantage of a change in the Degree's curriculum and the implementation of the Workshop subjects, taught in every semester and designed with the key objective of promoting transversality among the different disciplines of the Degree. The COVID-19 situation has somewhat hindered the work planned for the 2020/21 academic year, but without any doubt it has shown us, in a forceful way, that digital skills are essential in university education and that the appropriate mechanisms must be established to guarantee their assimilation throughout the entire learning process.