Nowadays, searching for diverse information on different topics, either personally or through participation in groups, virtual communities, and academic and educational social networks, leads us to find an infinite amount of content on the Internet. Therefore, ICTs play an essential role since they not only facilitate the use and allow access to an innumerable volume of information. Consequently, this amount of content poses two essential challenges: to avoid documentary noise and to distinguish relevant information. Derived from this, content curation allows the organization, classification, storage and dissemination of information offered by multiple online sources, for which the selected content curator is in itself, the person in charge of gathering, organizing and sharing the best and most relevant content of a specific topic, so that in universities we can find above all that students develop not only the skills of each subject but also digital skills, which allow students to become digital citizens or content curators prepared for the new productive environments of the knowledge society. For this reason, the following study was carried out with the objective of generating a model to develop digital, informational, and multimodal skills based on a measurement and comparison of the level of mastery of digital skills of university students in Mexico and Spain. A total of 217 students from different university careers from different institutions such as the Normal Superior Institute of Campeche, Tecnologico de Monterrey and University of Malaga participated in the research. They answered an ad hoc online questionnaire, which evaluates ICT competencies of higher education teachers. The results show different levels of mastery (high, medium, and low), with practically all the students surveyed owning a personal computer (97%), a cell phone (98%) and an Internet connection (97.5%). The differences between students according to their country of origin begin to emerge when we look at the usual place from which they connect. The conclusions of the study visualize the digital competencies of university students as the main characteristic of the role of content curation as an alternative for the refinement of searches, the dissemination of information and scientific updating, which favors the information management of teachers working in these Higher Education Universities and Institutions evaluated.
