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Teachers’ digital competences in higher education in Portugal and Spain
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The potential of DTIC has brought new and emerging challenges to teachers, making it essential
to acquire digital competences, especially in virtual learning environments and online
technologies. In this sense, based on the DigCompEdu CheckIn self-assessment questionnaire,
validated for the Portuguese population by earlier studies, this research aims to identify the
most fragile and robust areas of digital competences of Portuguese and Spanish university
teachers. The quantitative methodological approach emphasizes teachers’ perception of their
digital competences in three dimensions: teachers’ professional competences, teachers’
pedagogical competences and students’ competences and involved 347 teachers from Portugal
and Spain. The results show that teachers of the two institutions have an overall moderate level
of digital proficiency–level B1 and B2–and that the differences encountered between Portuguese
and Spanish teachers (for example, Portuguese teachers have level A2 in area 4–assessment–,
while Spanish teachers are already at level B2) highlight the need to invest in specific training
that may address specific frailties, and therefore allow for the promotion of their digital
competences. Results relating to teaching experience and age show that there is no direct
relation between either factor or being digitally competent. Regarding gender, results reveal that
men had slightly better results than women. Overall, what the results show is the need for
teachers to increase the level of digital competence through specific training, prepared
according to the specificities of each institution, and the importance of developing public policies
that prepare teachers for a more digital education.
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Digital technologies Digital competence Higher education Teacher training DigCompEdu
Citation
Dias-Trindade, S., Moreira, J. A., García Huertas, J. G., Garrido Pintado, P., & Mas Miguel, A. (2023). Teachers’ digital competences in higher education in Portugal and Spain. Contemporary Educational Technology, 15(4), ep463. https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/13604