Digital Competence of Educators: Opportunities and Challenges
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2025 | Viewed by 1177
Special Issue Editors
Interests: teacher training; digital competence; educational policy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: teacher training; teaching innovation; digital competence
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: teacher training; digital competence; inclusive education
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Technology has brought about important changes in the way we live and relate to each other. The educational sphere has not been left out of the digitalization process, and technology has been integrated into equipment, at the curricular level, and in the roles of the people that form part of the educational process.
In the case of teachers, their digital training has been the subject of study, as has the generation of strategies and policies in international and national contexts. In fact, these reflections have given rise to reference frameworks that have tried to conceptualize digital competence in teaching and to identify which skills should form part of it.
With this as a starting point, this monograph aims to reflect on issues such as the following:
- What is the level of digital competence of educators?
- How is the digital training of future and practicing teachers being advanced?
- What kind of political, social, organizational, personal, etc., variables affect the digital competence of educators?
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Social Sciences.
Dr. Vicente Gabarda Méndez
Dr. M. Mercedes Romero Rodrigo
Dr. M. Isabel Vidal-Esteve
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital competence
- teachers
- initial training
- lifelong learning
- education policy
- classroom practice
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