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Throughout their school career, from primary to secondary education and later in higher education, students have the opportunity to build and develop various skills, including technological. Considering the different needs and different uses that these skills encompass, these will certainly be necessary and useful in students\u2019 academic and professional life. This study reports on an investigation of technological skills development in higher education. It aims to analyze the relevance of technologies integration, which technological skills are built and developed by higher education students, and what their perception about the importance of technological skills is. Based on a literature review, an online questionnaire was designed and applied to 217 students from three public higher education institutions located in the North, Center, and South of Portugal. This intended to verify which areas of technological skills (from the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens) are most developed and to understand respective repercussions. It is concluded that the balanced development of students\u2019 technological skills in higher education is crucial for their personal, social, and professional future and consequently, for their quality of life, with the integration of digital technologies being relevant in the change of the academic work organization, in the relations between learners, teachers, and institutions, and in the new ways of teaching and learning.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/educsci11070326","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,1]],"date-time":"2021-07-01T02:44:39Z","timestamp":1625107479000},"page":"326","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":47,"title":["Technological Skills in Higher Education\u2014Different Needs and Different Uses"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6648-7956","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana Lu\u00edsa","family":"Rodrigues","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Education, University of Lisbon, 1649-004 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Lu\u00edsa","family":"Cerdeira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Education, University of Lisbon, 1649-004 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Maria de Lourdes","family":"Machado-Taylor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Research on Higher Education Policies (CIPES), 4450-227 Matosinhos, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5192-2310","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Helena","family":"Alves","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilh\u00e3, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"OECD (2020). 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