Digital Teaching Skills and Design of Didactic Materials for Online Education

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variable Digital Competencies in teachers for the design of didactic materials in Latin American online education. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this paper is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017-2021 in Latin American countries, achieving the identification of 60 publications in total. The information provided by the said platform was organized using graphs and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge, and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, the position of different authors on the proposed topic was referenced by employing a qualitative analysis. Among the main results of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 17 publications, is the Latin American country with the highest production. The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of Digital Competencies in teachers for the design of didactic material in online education was Social Sciences with 34 published documents, and the Type of Publication that was most used during the period indicated above was the Journal Article, which represents 55% of the total scientific production.