IMPACTO DE LAS TIC EN INSTITUCIONES EDUCATIVAS: PÚBLICAS Y PRIVADAS EN ECUADOR

Abstract

The educational system has undergone great changes over time, from being a traditional model onto a creative and self-taught environment. In Ecuador, the type of sustenance of educational institutions is a determining factor in the teaching-learning process. The research work is exploratory and explanatory in nature and aims to determine the impact of ICTs on the performance of students in public and private establishments at national. The design is quantitative, extracts data from databases of the World Bank (WB), the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), the Ministry of Education (MIN-EDUC), the National Institute for Educational Evaluation of Higher Education, Science and Technology (SENESCYT). According to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (2016), almost 73,15% of public institutions have an optimal use of ICT, but the education of a large part of the population is in the hands of public educational centers. Ecuador is no stranger to its shortcomings in technology and the main objective is to reduce the digital gap.