Digital and 21st century skills

New challenges in Higher Education

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55777/rea.v16i31.5404

Keywords:

higher education, Digital competence, XXI century competences

Abstract

Before the use of the term "digital competence" became pervasive in the literature and practice in Education, other terms were commonly used, such as digital literacy / literacy, technological skills (tech skills) or skills in information and communication technologies (ICT). Although distinct in their specificity, all these terminologies sought to alert to a common dimension: the need to consider carefully, seriously, productively and critically knowledge and skills associated with the proficient use of technological solutions which, increasingly ubiquitous, mediate contemporary social practices. A particularly important warning that the various nations have been stressing with increasing force and that the recent pandemic situation has made vociferous. In the educational context, several references have been addressing the issue, whether the ISTE (ISTE, 2023) Standards for students (1998; 2007; 2016) or ISTE Standards for teachers (2000; 2008; 2017) or the TPACK model (Koehler & Mishra 2009; Mishra & Koehler, 2006; 2008), which involve guidelines for incorporating technologies in the teaching and learning process, or the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT-CFT) (UNESCO, 2011; 2018) which, in turn, presents ICT competency standards for teachers.

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Author Biographies

Neuza Pedro, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Assistant Professor with Aggregation at the Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon. D. in Education in the speciality ICT in Education. She has post-graduate training in E-teaching from the University of Agder-Norway and in Online Assessment from the University of Wisconsin-Stout in the United States. She obtained her Aggregation from the University of Lisbon in the area of Distance Education in Higher Education. She is currently also a member of the Scientific-Pedagogic Council for Continuous Teacher Training, the body responsible for regulating continuous teacher training in Portugal. He is the coordinator of the Doctoral and Master's Degree in Education and Digital Technologies of the Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon, and is also a member of the steering committee of the Doctoral Programme TELSC (Technology-enhanced Learning & societal challenges). Between 2010 and 2019 he assumed the coordination of the e-Learning Lab of the University of Lisbon.

João Mattar, PUC-SP e UNISA, Brasil

Master's degree in Educational Technology from Boise State University, a PhD in Languages from the University of São Paulo (USP) and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Brazilian Association of Distance Education (ABT) and International Director of the Brazilian Association of Distance Education (ABED). He is a professor in the Graduate Studies Program in Intelligence Technology and Digital Design (TIDD) at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). He is the coordinator of the Research Project "Digital Competencies in Education", funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES).

Cassio Santos, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Doctorate and Master in Education and Digital Technologies in Information and Communication Technologies - ICTs in Education, both from the University of Lisbon. In my PhD (European doctorate), I worked on the development of e-DigCompEdu: a framework for teaching digital skills in online higher education. I have over 15 years of experience in higher education, vocational education and training, mostly dedicated to e-learning, performing various activities such as course development, instructional design, training and consulting in several companies. She was tutor, teaching and research assistant, guest lecturer and assistant coordinator of the Masters in Education and Digital Technologies (distance learning) at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Education. I am a researcher in the area of digital competence, with several publications in important international journals in the area, and I am the author of the tool www.digcomptest.eu, which promotes the evaluation of the level of proficiency in digital competence of educators

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Portada Volumen 16, Núm. 31 (2023)

Published

2023-04-30

How to Cite

Pedro, N., Mattar, J. ., & Santos, C. (2023). Digital and 21st century skills: New challenges in Higher Education. Journal of Learning Styles, 16(31), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.55777/rea.v16i31.5404