DIGital competences for engaGING future educators

Citizens with enough digital competences is a clear objective of the EU for the future (OECD Report “Skills for a Digital World”, 2016. First, while there is awareness that the skills profile of c...

The overall objective was to measure the evolution of the digital competences of future teachers, and of course, if possible, improve them. The project wanted to be able to measure and compare these competences, but also to give tools and possibilities to improve these competences using online courses of the In-Service Training (IST) and the OER compiled in the repository So creating a common framework of digital competences for the countries in the project, including a set of baseline test questionnaires to measure the evolution of acquisition of those competences running on the Technical environment that supports Statistical Analysis System and the IST, and testing all with real Pre-Service Teachers allows to have a clear view of the system possibilities. Then, it was also important to disseminate the system to the educational sector, not only to Education Faculties, but also to In Service Teachers in their schools, as the system can help them to controlled and improve their digital competences, that is why the level system of DigCompEdu was adopted, and this is specially relevant for Spanish teachers as they have to get this qualifications in the coming 2 years