This study is part of the Surfing the Waves of Fake News (SURFake) project, involving 543 Spanish university students. Its purpose is to understand the variables related to potentially risky practices students engage in on social media and their educational shortcomings. An opinion questionnaire was used to establish levels of vulnerability to…

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the extent of sustainability disclosure through websites at Spanish universities and analyse the determinants that affect such disclosure. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses as methodology a content analysis of the sustainability information disclosed by universities on their official websites in…

Surveys administered to social sciences undergraduates at five universities in Spain measured their belief in importance, self-efficacy, and actual knowledge with respect to information ethics and information quality. The results suggest that students exhibit relatively low levels of self-efficacy regarding ethics and quality. The article…

This study aims to understand the extent to which 56 teachers developed new academic-based voices about teaching in the context of a research-informed teaching course. The empirical evidence consisted of a set of 228 short reports written by participants on the course. Each report reflects a fragment of knowledge acquired by a teacher and includes…

What difficulties do architecture students encounter in the structural design for their final master project? How do they address these difficulties? This paper presents the topic and focuses on these two research questions by examining the students' experience, using thematic analysis with a qualitative approach. We obtained the data through…

Hybrid media context and the infodemic have increased the threat of disinformation, particularly among young people who mostly consume digital content. This article aims to identify the competencies needed to detect low-quality content linked to disinformation by Journalism and Communications undergraduates from Argentina, Chile, and Spain. Based…

Contribution: This paper describes a highly flexible design for a master's-level server administration course that uses updated technologies, addresses the most important course design challenges and extracts useful feedback from student work. The main contribution of this design is eliminating the self-regulation challenge students encounter in…

Higher education is currently undergoing a revolution with the widespread use of electronic tools in classrooms. Simultaneously, personal opinions are increasingly stronger and more expressive resulting in electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM). This article presents two studies. The first study exposes students' opinions about higher education and…

This research investigated the level of knowledge and perceptions of trainee teachers towards the LGBTQ+ community. In order to achieve this, a descriptive study was carried out, with the objective of becoming aware of the expectations and preconceptions held by trainee teachers in the fourth year of their degree course in Primary and Infant…

The CAPPLE project is an exploratory research project that aims to analyse the PLEs of future Spanish professionals. An ad-hoc survey about their habits for learning was conducted using a sample of 2054 university students from the last year of a degree. After data collection, two main processes were carried out: (1) the analysis of some of the…