Educators are role models for the next generation. It is therefore vital for them to be equipped with the digital competence all citizens need to be able to actively participate in a digital society. The European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp) specifies these competences. DigComp has become a widely accepted tool for measuring and certifying Digital Competence and has been used as a basis for teacher training and professional development across and beyond Europe. As citizens, educators need to be equipped with these competences to participate in society, both personally and professionally. As role models, they need to be able to clearly demonstrate their digital competence to learners and to pass on their creative and critical use of digital technologies.

However, educators are not just role models. They are first and foremost learning facilitators, or more plainly: teachers. As professionals dedicated to teaching, they need, in addition to the general digital competences for life and work, educator-specific digital competences to be able to effectively use digital technologies for teaching. The aim of the DigCompEdu framework is to capture and describe these educator-specific digital competences. The DigCompEdu framework distinguishes six different areas in which educators’ Digital Competence is expressed with a total of 22 competences.

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