Effect of digital teaching competence in the use of blended learning in vocational training

Abstract

The proliferation of educational technology in Vocational Training has meant that the teaching group that develops its mission at that stage must have an adequate level of digital skills to make an effective use of innovative methodologies. The study presented aims to know the influence of digital competence in the use of blended learning in Vocational Training teachers. For that reason, a quantitative research method of descriptive and correlational type has been followed, with a sample of 627 Spanish teachers. As a data collection instrument, a questionnaire was used whose results reveal a competence deficit in the different areas of digital ability, a fact that affects the use of blended learning in the vocational training stage, and that teachers themselves perceive as the main reason to conclude that such competence influences the use of this emerging approach.