Estrategia de protección en internet y la educación a distancia. Caso: Posgrado en línea de la UAZ

Abstract

The present investigation has as a general purpose to demonstrate that students of the online graduate program: Educational Information Technology of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, lack of strategies of computer protection especially those who belong to the female sex. They latter use operating systems of the family Microsoft Windows and they do not have academic antecedents related to the computer sciences, they are the most vulnerable againts certain type of computer attacks. To this end, a survey instrument validated with Alpha de Cronbach was applied, designed according to the operationalization of the variables that define the objectives and hypotheses of this research and which uses reagents of the closed question type, with Likert scales, gathering information from digitally through Google Forms, applied to 106 students of the semester August - January 2016, of which 42 were first semester, 23 were in second semester, 21 were in third semester and 20 were in fourth semester. In this group 52% were female and 48% were male, subsequent to the data collection an exploratory and descriptive analysis of frequencies and multivariate analysis was carried out, using the factorial method of the principal components analisys (PCA). The results of this research confirms hypothesis established as valid. It concluded that instruction should be given to students and facilitators in order to identify the main threats that they face in Internet and enhace their own protection habits.