Accessibility of Digital Educational Resources in textbooks of Basic Education in Chile

Abstract

This article presents the results obtained from a Research Seedbed carried out by students of the Pedagogy in Basic Education program, with a focus on Language and Mathematics, at the University of Los Lagos. Through a qualitative methodology and content analysis, the accessibility of the digital educational resources proposed in the textbooks for basic education students was studied, in the subjects of Mathematics, Language, History, and Sciences for the year 2022.

Key aspects in the use of resources were analyzed, such as accessibility, availability or validity; the ways in which students can access these resources; proposed work strategies; successes and errors detected in the different proposals by specialty and type of resource. The results reveal serious deficiencies in the accessibility of technological resources; little or no updating of this resources; and a lack of clear and precise guidelines regarding the efficient integration of these resources in the teaching and  learning process.