Publication of the Learning Maturity Model for Digital Education Competence
The aim of the Learning Maturity Model for Digital Education Competence (access its full presentation here) is to create an organisational paradigm for digital education training content as means of structuring the information about the degree of expertise on specific competences for all those teachers and educators that aim at improving their digital competences. By aligning the model’s structure to the Tuning-CALOHEE framework (KSA – Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes), its compatibility with previous work (such as the Tuning/CALOHEE Framework for Teacher Education) has been pursued. Thus, this bears the potential to add “digital education” to the Tuning-CALOHEE framework and allow for its future-oriented expansion. The model serves as the foundation for EdDiCo’s central output: a learning directory with more than 500 high-quality digital learning opportunities (e.g., MOOCs or OER). The learning opportunities are matched according to specific competence subsets and progression levels and will be suggested to educators through a self-assessment tool.
The Learning Maturity Model for Digital Education Competence (download PDF here) describes each subset of the competences identified in the Competence Meta Model for Digital Educators in terms of three proficiency levels — Explorer, Expert, Pioneer — and subdivides each competence into its constituent elements of (1) knowledge, (2) skills and (3) autonomy & responsibility. This differentiation acknowledges on the one hand that educators may not only measure their level of specific digital competences in binary terms but rather in terms of proficiency levels. On the other hand, the tripartite structure mirrors that competences are a conglomerate of content-related expertise (e.g. on digital technologies and pedagogical strategies), the application of this knowledge, and the attitude or mindset that educators display. As the Competence Meta Model for Digital Educators heavily draws on the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (DigCompEdu), the Learning Maturity Model can be understood as a proposal to further operationalise DigCompEdu.