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- The experience of designing and developing an edX's MicroMasters program to develop or reinforce the digital competence on teachersPublication . De La Roca, Mónica; Hernandez, Rocael; Morales, Miguel; Amado, Héctor; Teixeira, AntónioThe fast and constant evolution of information and communication technology (ICT) has brought on cultural, social and economic changes. Educational institutions (EIs) are aware that both students and teachers need to acquire digital competence to meet up actual and future workforce needs. Society needs individuals to handle a variety of thinking and understanding skills to tackle and solve problems in virtual environments. Teachers must understand how students relate to and interact with technology, this knowledge will allow them to enhance their courses with ICT and provide a better academic support to their students. The focus of this paper is to describe the experience of Galileo University in designing and developing a MicroMasters Program of four courses, in MOOC format, deployed in edX platform to develop or reinforce the digital competence on teachers. The evaluation to determine if the MicroMasters program design framework was effective towards developing teachers' digital competence has been left out of this paper, due to its importance and extension.