ABSTRACT

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) today print a specific way to determine the scientific content that is obtained in the transformation of information into scientific knowledge and the latter in research innovation. Under these conditions, the objective is to identify the state of the art on research training with the use of ICT in university students. A documentary review of articles related to the subject is carried out in the period 2009-2019 and a survey of teachers of the University of Loja is applied by email, which allowed comparing information. Categories that express the role of ICT in research training were identified; with which the state of the art of the subject was identified. As well as indicators were established to determine the frequency of use of the manifestations of ICTs such as Internet search engines, database, forums of scientific groups used in research training; and limitations that are still perceived in said training were determined. The results mean the demand for the use of ICTs to obtain scientific content in research training, but such training is not reduced to the use of technologies, but it will be necessary to have a didactic-pedagogical approach aimed at self-learning in the search, exchange, reflection and analysis of the information that allows the generation of scientific knowledge, as a link for the transformative research innovation of reality.

Keywords: research training; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); scientific content; higher education; research innovation.