No. 4 – Do we develop digital competences or digital skills?
Channel: EDEN Digital Learning Europe
Date: 2021-06-08

When all education organizations moved online in Spring, 2020, many of them had no time at all to think about consistent development of digital competences and existing frameworks, but took rapid actions to find most suitable technological solutions to ensure teaching and learning and filled in the skill – gaps of their educators to apply technologies to transfer information in the smooth and inclusive way.

However, by the pandemic year, several important instruments describing digital competences of educators already exited, namely, competence metaframeworks, covering knowledge, skill and attitude/ responsibility level, as well as digital competence framework for educators – DigCompEdu – and many others. When the storm surpassed, we have to look around us to reflect on our practices and the way how digital competence development is addressed in education organizations and how this is in line with the competence definition in the broad sense.

Moreover, several important initiatives in the European projects among academics and professionals prepared suggestions on how to address DigCompEdu competence groups and how to match DigCompEdu framework with the competence maturity model. Others raised important questions if digital competence framework is important for educators only, and how student digital competences are to be considered in this perspective.

The webinar dedicated to address these issues will address the challenges and needs that education institutions experience in digital competence development, will look at the proposal of new meta competences as suggestions for DigCompEdu, the maturity model proposal, and will discuss how the pandemic highlighted the need for development of digital competences.

Moderator
Airina Volungevičienė
EDEN Digital Learning Europe,
Vytautas Magnus University

Speakers
Nicole Johnson
Research Director at the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association

Jochen Ehrenreich
Senior researcher at DHBW,
Cooperative State University of Baden – Württemberg

Yasmin Djabarian
Program manager at Stifterverband in Berlin

Anastasia Economou
Joint Research Centre, European Commission

Stefano Menon
Project manager at Fondazione Politecnico di Milano

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