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Evolving Digital Skills of first-year students: A Pre- and Post-Covid Analysis

Published:2024-03-28 Issue:1 Volume:19 Page:
ISSN:2219-6994
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Ebner Martin^ORCID,Mair Bettina^ORCID,Nagler Walther^ORCID,Schön Sandra^ORCID,Edelsbrunner Sarah^ORCID

Abstract

Digital skills are necessary for first-year students at Austrian universities. This paper unveils results from two surveys among first-year students at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz): Pre-Covid-19 data (n=921) is derived from a larger study on digital literacy among first-year students in Styria (Janschitz et al., 2021, N=4,676). The same questions were posed in the 2021 ‘Welcome Days’ survey after the Covid-19 distance learning phases (n=1,207). Surprisingly, the only significant change is a noticeable increase of skills concerning the digital signature. This article additionally presents the development of a lecture on digital skills that was implemented at TU Graz as a massive open online course (MOOC).

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