DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ATTITUDINAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMPONENTS REGARDING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FROM UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF SUCRE IN COLOMBIA

Abstract

This research study aimed to know and describe attitudes from a sample of university professors from the Sucre Department in Colombia regarding information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a learning tool, and how professors have been trained in ICT in this Colombian region. The instrument of Agreda etal., (2016) was applied to a sample of 354 professors from the Sucre Department through digital media. The information analysis was descriptive and done only for dimensions: "attitudes towards ICT in higher education" and ‘professional development of university professors in ICTs’. As a result, it was established that professors surveyed in the Sucre Department have a positive and favorable attitude regarding use of ICTs as pedagogical mediation tools, that the learning that professors have developed in this Colombian region has been more self-taught than in formal training processes, and that it is suitable that higher education institutions fromthe Sucre Departmentexpandtheir professional development for professors in relation to ICT management as pedagogical mediation tools.