Areas covered by DigCompEdu

The target level of Digital Skills needed by teachers and trainers for supporting apprentices in developing Personal Learning Environments based on the DigCompEdu progression levels.

1.      Professional engagement

1.3. Reflective practice. To reflect on individually and collectively, critically assess and actively develop one’s digital pedagogical approach and that of one’s educational community.

2. Digital Resources

2.3 Managing, protecting, and sharing digital resources. To organize digital content and make it available to learners. To effectively protect sensitive digital content. To respect and correctly apply privacy and copyright rules. To understand the use and creation of open licenses and open educational resources, including their proper attribution.

3. Teaching and learning

3.2 Guidance. To use digital technologies and services to enhance the interaction with learners, individually and collectively, within and outside the learning session. To use digital technologies to offer timely and targeted guidance and assistance. To experiment with and develop new forms and formats for offering guidance and support.

3.3 Collaborative learning. To use digital technologies to foster and enhance learner collaboration. To enable learners to use digital technologies as part of collaborative assignments to enhance communication, collaboration, and collaborative knowledge creation.

3.4 Self-regulated learning. To use digital technologies to support self-regulated learning processes, i.e., to enable learners to plan, monitor, and reflect on their own learning, provide evidence of progress, share insights, and come up with creative solutions.

5. Empowering learners

5.3 Actively engaging learners. To use digital technologies to foster learners’ active and creative engagement with a subject matter. To use digital technologies within pedagogic strategies that foster learners’ transversal skills, deep thinking, and creative expression. To open learning to new, real-world contexts, involving learners in hands-on activities, scientific investigation, or complex problem solving, or increase learners’ active involvement in complex subject matters.

6. Facilitating Learners’ Digital Competence

6.2 Digital communication & collaboration. To incorporate learning activities, assignments, and assessments which require learners to use digital technologies effectively and responsibly for communication, collaboration, and civic participation.

6.4. Responsible use. To ensure learners’ physical, psychological, and social wellbeing while using digital technologies. To empower learners to manage risks and use digital technologies safely and responsibly.