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A Network for the Enhancement of Digital Competence Skills

Digital Competence, as the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are required when using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and digital media to perform everyday human activities, have started to be understood as "life skills". Nevertheless, concerning the integration of innovative technology and approaches, many teachers do not possess required competences for the pedagogical use of ICT in teaching and learning. The DigiSkills project, as a Network for the Enhancement of Digital Competence Skills, aims to support teachers of all levels of education to combine ICT skills with pedagogy, to use ICT skills in the curriculum and in the institutional organisation. In the framework of the network, success is based on the development of a large Community of Practice (CoP) which enables sharing of "DigiSkills best practices" from various European countries to show their own scenarios of use of learning tools and methodologies tested in their real settings. Additionally, to support a larger number of teachers, the project has set up the Digital Competence Academy. The paper provides an insight into the convergence of the project objectives with the findings in the recent reports/initiatives worldwide aiming to investigate which digital technologies and how can be used for meeting the 21st century lifelong learning societal needs taking into consideration global as well as local challenges. Furthermore, the paper presents the data analysis and basic findings from one-year long implementation of the DigiSkills tools with teachers’ communities that demonstrate the importance of the development of online CoP as the core nodes for teachers’ professional development and support.

life-long learning ; communities of practice ; best practices ; professional development

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