Diagnostic of basic TIC skills of students entering first and second professional level enrollment at CEAD VÉLEZ of UNAD

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have come to play an important role in the way learning takes place, from the teacher to the student, being necessary the acquisition of specific skills that lead to be able to generate an autonomous, effective and quality learning; therefore, the exercise of learning may or may not become significant if you have the skills to be competent in ICT. Therefore, since the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD) requires first and second enrollment students to have ICT skills, this research was carried out with the objective of identifying the skills that students have and should have in order to be competent in the virtual modality, at the time of entering undergraduate training at the UNAD headquarters located in the municipality of Vélez Santander. Thus, a sample of 52 students was chosen, to whom a survey-type instrument was applied with 24 questions covering the seven competencies established in the standard of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE, 2016) oriented to students with their respective skills. As a result, it was found that students only reach a medium level of mastery in each of the skills by competency, since they only achieve 50% of competence and not 100% as expected, concluding that UNAD needs to initiate a process of strengthening competencies from the formative action.