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THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL COMPETENCE ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS
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The importance of understanding the impact of digital competence has gravitated from the global business management to traini ng activities. The world is becoming a small village by means of digital t echnological environment. Digital competency plays a key role in people’ social, edu cational and occupational lives. When digital empowerment data gathered from participant were analyzed with respect to the sub dimensions such as awareness, motivation, technical access and digital competence. Many findings may be in correlation with each other. Accordi ng to the research findings, young people’ motivation for digital empowerment is far grater than the old people’. One more important finding is that students have the highest awareness of using digital technologies among all participants.
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