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Due to the digitalisation of communication-related productive sectors (journalism, advertising, audiovisual creation, corporate and strategic communications, etc.), having up-todate technological skills is crucial for joining and remaining in the labour market. In this study, the technological skills demanded from Journalism graduates in Spain by potential employers are analysed using a sample (n=433) of job postings aimed at such graduates on the specialist online platforms LinkedIn and Infojobs. The results show that the labour market available to Journalism graduates is broadly shared with graduates in other disciplines (especially Advertising and Public Relations, and Marketing). Only about 8% of the job postings analysed came from media outlets. Almost 70% were addressed to graduates in Journalism or other graduates in the field of communication and marketing, and only about 20% demanded functions connected with the production of journalistic information. Regarding the technological skills sought, about 60% of the job postings demanded knowledge of at least one specific technological tool, mainly for the tasks of graphic design, layout and image editing; data processing; web content design and management; text editing and presentations; web analytics; and social media. The results suggest that the variety of technological tools used in Journalism university programme teaching will need to be increased in order to facilitate graduate employability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of computational thinking has become one of the educational priorities in several countries around the world. In this article, two experiences are described in which two block programming tools are used. The first experience only used BlocksCAD, while the second added the use of Blockly and the work on some mathematical algorithms in a maths classroom. The number of participants in the experience was twenty-eight in the group that only used Blocky and thirteen in the group that combined the use of both tools, all of them of the third year of secondary education (between 14 and 15 years old) in a school in Spain. The results show that, although the use of Blocks-CAD alone allows an increase in the development of CT, if other resources such as Blockly are also used in the mathematics classroom, the effect is multiplied. In addition, considering the satisfaction results of the participants in the experience, together with the possibility of printing their own creations through 3D modelling (a fact claimed by the students themselves), this encourages us to continue using both tools and even to try to combine them with other tools and to design experiences that encompass entire academic courses or, at least, entire trimesters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction. In this empirical research we analyse the introduction of technology subjects offered by Spanish universities (public and private) through the Journalism / Communication graduate studies. Methodology. In the article we analyse, through the technique of content analysis, thirtyeight degree study plans out of a universe of more than one thousand nine hundred subjects. Results. The research discloses interesting findings, like implementations and emerging technologies are being reflected in the designs of current curricula in Spain. Conclusions. We also indicate which are the Spanish universities with the highest credit load and number of subjects offered in terms of technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Review of the technological advances that have influenced the evolution of the academic library, and description of the actions taken to accommodate them: developing repositories and open access, renovating spaces, providing services to researchers, offering search tools and ebooks. The general conclusions are that academic libraries are healthy because they have been able to anticipate change and that they have good prospects for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article belongs to the field of e-assessment at University. It aims to identify how the students' assessment process is managed and to know the attitude of the university faculty to the incorporation of technology in the assessment process of learning. The methodology is descriptive-correlative, based on the application of an electronic survey to a representative sample from each branch and professional category of the teaching staff at the University of Salamanca. After the execution of the appropriate inferential contrasts of "attitude" according to the branch of knowledge, professional category and years of teaching, the obtained results display statistically significant differences by branch of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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