How might we make effective use of digital learning’s disruptive potential?
How might we empower students to tackle future challenges?
There are certainly several approaches to these questions. One thing, however, is certain: Educators play a decisive role in finding and piloting appropriate answers. We would like to take a moment and look back at the sudden switch to online teaching and learning in Spring 2020, and ask the question:

How might we best support educators in their digital teaching?
Educators continuously have to learn new digital tools and methods. Often, these require a partial or complete revision of their teaching and learning approaches and of the educators’ diligently prepared course material.

We will discuss with you a competence meta-model for digital educators and a learning maturity model that facilitates microlearning. Experience the iterative validation process by means of various templates and collaborative settings. With the advent of each new technology come predictions of fundamental changes in education. Yet few of these changes have been realized. Digital learning may indeed be the technology that breaks that pattern, but this will only come to pass if educators are empowered to take advantage of the technologies and methodologies available to them.

In the Erasmus+ project “Supporting the Development of the Digital Competences of Educators” (EdDiCo), a consortium of seven European partners aims to empower educators, providing them with a tool to self-assess their digital competence levels, and helping them to identify the educational resources they need to further develop their own digital competences according to individually defined needs and career goals. In this workshop, members of the project consortium will present the results of the first project phase: an organisational paradigm for digital education training content, which serves as the foundation for the self-assessment tool and the yet-to-be-prepared learning resource directory.