The importance of digital skills in academic research papers (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The problem detected is that undergraduate and even postgraduate students still do not have a handle on the digital tools that today are being used for the analysis of information, data, trend analysis through machine learning and this puts young professionals at a disadvantage against those who do understand and use them. To understand the scope, surveys and interviews were carried out, then training was carried out on some platforms and the participants did not know the program or did not have great interest in learning how to use it or see how it could be part of their study style. Digital competences are necessary skills for the development of academic research in the digital age. Today, access to information and digital technologies are essential to carry out quality research. Some of the digital competences that have been detected need to be included by the professional profiles of the graduates are: The ability to carry out effective searches online, that is, students must be able to find and access relevant information for their research effectively and efficiently on the Internet; the ability to assess the quality of information, it is important that students can assess the quality and veracity of the information found online and other digital resources; the ability to organize and store information, students must be able to use digital tools to organize and store information efficiently; the ability to analyze and visualize data, meaning the ability to use digital tools to analyze and visualize data is increasingly important for academic research, and the ability to collaborate online in academic research, collaboration between students from different locations is becoming more common. In the academic life of our students and graduates who are developing their thesis work, which is a purely investigative activity, it is essential to take advantage of digital skills to conclude with a contribution to engineering or science. In this aspect, the scope is for all undergraduate and graduate students of the Continental University. It is concluded then that working with artificial intelligence tools, advanced editing programs and others that allow an agile, secure and traceable search of information sources can be done in less time and thanks to other systems that work collaboratively to share, store, edit and review information in a wide variety of formats allows the researcher to relate more quickly and efficiently with researchers from other places. Thus, it is possible that the research development process is much less complicated and easier to validate and review in order to continue with publications and patent development, among others.