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Mellado-Moreno, Pedro-CCorresponding AuthorBernal-Bravo, CesarAuthor

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October 9, 2023
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Evaluation of open digital resources for digital and media competence from an educational-communicative perspective

Publicated to:Revista Mediterránea De Comunicación: Mediterranean Journal Of Communication. 14 (2): 195-205 - 2023-12-01 14(2), DOI: 10.14198/MEDCOM.24259

Authors: Mellado-Moreno, Pedro-C; Bernal-Bravo, Cesar

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Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

The creation and use of Open Educational Digital Resources emerges as one of the priority elements of Digital Competence in Education in its digital and media aspect, fundamental for the construction and dissemination of reliable knowledge in the face of the spread of fake news. This paper proposes and describes a process of educommunicative evaluation of this type of resources aimed at training students and teachers in Digital Competence in Education in the field of higher education. For this purpose, a specific Likert-type scale questionnaire (CEREDA) has been developed, which has proved to be reliable when evaluating digital resources. The results report a validation of the questionnaire and the resources evaluated, establishing associations that indicate the qualities that digital resources must have in order to be considered innovative, as well as finding significant differences between teaching staff and students in the perceptions they express about the level of accessibility of the resources created and evaluated.

Keywords

Digital competenceEducational materialEducommunicative evaluationIctMedia competenceOer

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Revista Mediterránea De Comunicación: Mediterranean Journal Of Communication due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Cultural Studies.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 1.31, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Aug 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-08-03, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 1

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-03:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 12.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 33 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.85.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 2 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 4 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Additionally, the work has been submitted to a journal classified as Diamond in relation to this type of editorial policy.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Mellado Moreno, Pedro César) and Last Author (Bernal Bravo, César).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Mellado Moreno, Pedro César.