DOCUMED

PIEC_2735090

The DOCUMED project tries to provide a series of practical guidelines, with instructions for its effective development and consolidation. The starting point is to generate audiovisual and multimedia material extracted from real social research processes, which allow the development of a series of good practices in the use of qualitative techniques.

This effort is justified in terms of necessity and suitability to respond to the challenges that arise in this first quarter of the 21st century. We live immersed in a society that generates an enormous volume of data with different

supports, with complex information and knowledge management systems, which requires proficient handling of different statistics and indicators and locating documentary sources, databases, repositories and research on the Internet, in different languages. Furthermore, the absolute penetration of the digital format as a fundamental piece for the teaching-learning process, with all the developments that have occurred after the Covid-19 pandemic, leads us to a current topic for students such as the ability to detect and verify the documents to avoid the phenomenon of fake news. One of the most decisive social changes in recent decades has been the expansion of information and communication technologies.

It is essential that students of any higher degree acquire skills and competencies that help them discern between information/misinformation and discriminate against false information. But, furthermore, in an era where transparency is raised as a basic principle of action, it turns out that overinformation can operate as a significant obstacle to accessing the information that students need. In a society of such rapid change, and in the face of artificial intelligence, ethical reflection and awareness of the possible biases that robots (bots) can introduce into the information they produce are also important.

Consequently, the construction of a multimedia notebook on the usefulness and use of documentary sources and secondary data is presented as a beneficial opportunity to develop capabilities such as verifying sources, contrasting data, discriminating misinformation, checking how institutions apply transparency and access to information, etc.

Universitat de València. Office of the Vice-Principal for Lifelong Learning, Educational Transformation and Employability. 

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