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The COVID-19 pandemic forced the digitalization of education to be accelerated to continue the teaching–learning processes in confined populations. The irruption of this fact caused the evolution that had previously been occurring in the integration of digital technologies, and in general information and communication technologies (ICT), in education to be distorted, as their use multiplied exponentially in a few months. However, it is interesting to know how integrating these media and tools in the educational world evolved without having mediated an anomalous event such as the pandemic. This article studies the time university students in Spanish-speaking countries spent using the Internet for educational tasks in the pre-COVID era to determine whether this use was homogeneous in this common geographical and cultural space. Knowledge of these behaviors is valuable for analyzing their relationship with the then-current processes of ICT integration in higher education. It can serve as a basis for comparative studies of these trends and what happened during and after the pandemic. Among them is determining whether specific ICT integration strategies were not pedagogically adequate due to the situation’s urgency. The analysis of this study was descriptive and inferential statistics, based on the survey method with the application of data mining using software R. It was carried out over seven years (2012–2018) and applied to a sample of 2482 students from seven countries. The findings obtained have allowed us to determine that the use of the Internet by Spanish-speaking university students, in general, increased significantly over time in the pre-COVID era, in parallel to a more significant presence in educational processes, with conditioning factors in each country depending on its economy and political and social situation.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the digitalization of education to be accelerated to continue the teaching–learning processes in confined populations. The irruption of this fact caused the evolution that had previously been occurring in the integration of digital technologies, and in general information and communication technologies (ICT), in education to be distorted, as their use multiplied exponentially in a few months. However, it is interesting to know how integrating these media and tools in the educational world evolved without having mediated an anomalous event such as the pandemic. This article studies the time university students in Spanish-speaking countries spent using the Internet for educational tasks in the pre-COVID era to determine whether this use was homogeneous in this common geographical and cultural space. Knowledge of these behaviors is valuable for analyzing their relationship with the then-current processes of ICT integration in higher education. It can serve as a basis for comparative studies of these trends and what happened during and after the pandemic. Among them is determining whether specific ICT integration strategies were not pedagogically adequate due to the situation’s urgency. The analysis of this study was descriptive and inferential statistics, based on the survey method with the application of data mining using software R. It was carried out over seven years (2012–2018) and applied to a sample of 2482 students from seven countries. The findings obtained have allowed us to determine that the use of the Internet by Spanish-speaking university students, in general, increased significantly over time in the pre-COVID era, in parallel to a more significant presence in educational processes, with conditioning factors in each country depending on its economy and political and social situation.
نسعى من خلال هذا البحث إلى بيان أثر الحوسبة السحابية في دعم التعلم الالكتروني في شركة آسياسيل للاتصالات، للإجابة عن هدف البحث تم طرح المخطط الافتراضي الذي يعكس طبيعة علاقات الارتباط والتأثير بين الحوسبة السحابية بأبعادها المتمثلة بـ (البنية التحتية كخدمة، المنصة كخدمة، التطبيقات كخدمة) كمتغيرات مستقلة والتعلم الالكتروني كمتغير معتمد، وأنبثق عن ذلك المخطط مجموعة من الفرضيات الرئيسة والفرعية، وتم تحليل هذه الفرضيات باستخدام مجموعة من الأساليب الإحصائية ومعالجة البيانات التي تم الحصول عليها من خلال إجابات الأفراد المبحوثين في شركة آسياسيل عينة البحث من خلال استمارة الاستبانة. تم اختيار شركة آسياسيل للاتصالات (المنطقة الشمالية) كميدان للدراسة، وتم اختيار عينة من المختصين في مجال المعلوماتية في تلك الشركة كمجتمع للعينة، وتم تحديد حجم العينة من خلال استخدام أسلوب العينة القصدية الطبقية بالتركيز على الخبراء في مجال المعلوماتية في الشركة، وتم توزيع (64) استمارة وتم استرداد (60) استمارة أي بنسبة (93.7%) صالحة للتحليل واجراء الاختبارات المطلوبة، من خلال استخدام برنامج الحزمة الإحصائية (SPSS). توصلت الدراسة إلى مجموعة من النتائج أهمها وجودة تأثير للحوسبة السحابية بأبعادها (المستفيد، المنصات، البنية التحتية، التطبيقات) في دعم التعلم الالكتروني في شركة آسياسيل للاتصالات. واعتماداً على الاستنتاجات التي توصل إليها البحث فقد قدم الباحث مجموعة من التوصيات أهمها العمل على توفير بنية مركزة لبيانات موثوقة للغاية تجمع بين العديد من التقنيات ونماذج الأعمال مثل المحاكاة الافتراضية والحوسبة الموزعة ونماذج الدفع لكل مستخدم.
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