How do university professors communicate? Cultural consumption, ICT, information competencies and open access

Abstract

This is a study carried out by the Information Users Research Group of the National University of Córdoba that investigated the communicational behavior of teachers at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities based on their cultural and information consumptions through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Their informational, computer and communication competences were identified and also were explored their cultural consumptions related to their communication habits. The typology of educational materials socialized was revealed under the open access (OA) greenway model and it could be determined the actual use of the Ansenuza repository. It is a descriptive exploratory research with a qualitative-quantitative approach that included a bibliographic and field design. The data was collected by the administration of a survey questionnaire online and the educational materials housed in Ansenuza were harvested from the data base. It is concluded that there is a common interest for publishing and sharing teaching materials under the OA model, continuing the development of computer skills and incorporating ICT in the classroom and in the teaching life. However, it should be noted that the use that this population makes of the repositories in general and Ansenuza in particular is still incipient.