WOMEN'S LEARNING OF SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON DIGITAL COMPETENCE

Web 2.0 and, in particular, social networks have changed the ecology of learning, expanding and diversifying the contexts and ways of learning. Mobile technologies have promoted these changes. We want to know how ways of learning influence on women's digital competence in social networks. We applied a survey to 426 Andalusian women with different profiles depending on their employment status and geographical origin. We applied two scales measuring digital skills and ways of learning. We found several profiles of women depending on learning strategies, of whom are the women who prefer to do it by combining of a variety of learning strategies in different contexts, which achieve an advanced level of digital competence. These results allow us to design educational proposals and environments, which promote the use of technologies by women and achieving an advanced level of digital skills.