Digital skills in the training of higher education teachers and students in Cuba

Abstract

This work shows the current global digitalization reality, focused on the Cuban context reported in scientific literature. The main purpose of this paper analysis is to approach the identification of actions to promote the development of digital competence in teachers and students of Cuban higher education, in line with the eventual development of technological infrastructure. A bibliographic review was used, 50 articles were analyzed on the Web of Science, Scopus, and EBSCO platforms, of which 30 research reports met the selection criteria due to their content and levels of impact on the databases. The result was that universities in Cuba have inadequate infrastructure to achieve an exponential development of digital skills in students. There is an external limitation, the economic embargo this country has been subjected to since 1962 imposed by the United States, as well as the internal limitation of the insufficient investment in its technological developments. The digital skills of university students are still far from being considered sufficiently developed, one of the main causes is the lack of preparation and training of the teachers themselves.