Author - Yves Punie, European Commission – DG JRC – Directorate Innovation and Growth.

1. The European Commission’s
science and knowledge service
Joint Research Centre
Digitally competent teachers in
the area of Open Education
(DigCompEdu framework)
Yves Punie & Christine Redecker
DG JRC – Directorate Innovation and Growth
Unit B4 Human Capital and Employment
@yves998
International conference
"Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom"
Kaunas, Lithuania, 9-10 November 2017

2. 1. European policy context
2. European Digital Competence framework for
Educators (DigCompEdu)
3. How can teachers develop these?
4. Final remarks
Content

3. 1. European policy context

4. May 2017 Education package:
• Develop a digital competence framework to support teachers' self-
assessment and development: DigCompEdu
• Provide online courses and MOOCs for teacher training and guidance on
open education initiatives
Nov 2015: Renewed key priorities for EU collaboration in E&T:
• Open and innovative education and training, including by fully embracing
the digital era
• Strong support for educators
2013 Communication on Opening up Education:
• Innovative teaching and learning for all through new Technologies and Open
Educational Resources

5. 2. European Digital Competence
framework for Educators
(DigCompEdu)

6. 6
What can a European
framework contribute?
Provide a common language and shared
understanding of its key elements (all educ
levels) facilitating peer learning and exchange
A reference for existing and new initiatives,
allowing for local adaptations
Literature, analysis of existing initiatives
(DigComp, TPACK, ICT CFT, ISTE, MENTEP),
expert consultations, consensus building
Explain how educators' digital competence can
contribute to innovation in education
Allow to understand current levels of digital
competence and development needs
Support developing training materials and CPD
to boost educators' competences
Common language
A reference model
Scientific basis
Assessment
Training
Innovation

7. DigCompEdu: 6 areas

8. DigCompEdu: 22 competences

9. Core Competences for
Open Teaching
Open classrooms

10. Use of ICT for
teaching
In a traditional classroom, 3.1 is the most important competence
for educators
To plan for and implement digital devices and resources into the
teaching process, so as to enhance the effectiveness of teaching
interventions. To appropriately manage and orchestrate digital
teaching interventions. To experiment with and develop new
formats and pedagogical methods for instruction.

11. Core Competences for
Open Teaching
However, 21st century teaching and learning requires
more…
Open classrooms

12. To use digital technologies to
foster and enhance learner
collaboration. To enable
learners to use digital
technologies as part of
collaborative assignments, as
a means of enhancing
communication, collaboration
and collaborative knowledge
creation.
To use digital technologies to
support learners' self-
regulated learning. To enable
learners to plan, monitor and
reflect on their own learning,
provide evidence of progress,
share insights and come up
with creative solutions.
Student collaboration and
self-directed learning

13. Consequences
If student collaboration and self-regulated learning become
the norm, new forms of providing guidance and support are
needed.
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.

14. Opportunities
& Challenges
Open classrooms should also empower learners

15. Opportunities
To use digital technologies to address learners' diverse learning
needs, by allowing learners to advance at different levels and
speeds, and to follow individual learning pathways and objectives.

16. Opportunities
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 up learning to new, real-world contexts,
which involve learners themselves in hands-on activities, scientific
investigation or complex problem solving, or in other ways increase
learners' active involvement in complex subject matters.

17. Challenges
To ensure accessibility to learning resources and activities, for all
learners, including those with special needs. To consider and respond
to learners' (digital) expectations, abilities, uses and misconceptions,
as well as contextual, physical or cognitive constraints to their use of
digital technologies.

18. Widening the scope:
A holistic view on educators'
digital competence
Open classrooms

19. Widening the scope:
A holistic view on educators'
digital competence

20. Professional
engagement
Opening up communication and collaboration strategies,
within and beyond the organisation
Enhancing and developing pedagogical competences

21. Digital Resources
Finding, creating
and sharing
resources that
are tailored to
the learning
context and
individual
learners' needs

22. Assessment
Innovatively using the potential of digital tools for
enhancing assessment and feedback

23. Facilitating Learners'
Digital Competence
Making learners fit for life in the digital age

24. DigCompEdu: 22 competences

25. 3. How can teachers develop their
competence in open education?

26. Competence
Progression
 Teachers' professional digital competence can and must be developed
– no matter which stage they are currently at
 Different levels mean different focus areas and strategies for
professional development

27. 4. Final remarks

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Not everyone can be / should be expert or pioneer
Not even for one competence – certainly not for all
Depends on the role of the teacher, the subject, the education level,
the education sector, etc…
It is a reference framework – flexible local adaptations
Self-evaluation allows for understanding one's strength and
weaknesses, to look for training and to improve proficiency in some
competences
It may allow for monitoring and measurement at aggregate levels
Need for Digitally Competent learners (DigComp) and organisations
(DigCompOrg & School SELFIE) -> opening up education (OpenEdu
framework for HEIs)

29. Thank you
yves.punie@ec.europa.eu
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/digcompedu
Report to be released end of November….