The Significance of Digital Competences of University Teachers: The Views of the Teachers and Students Themselves

Abstract

This study brings the results of an international study of the views of academic teachers (academics) and students from the Czech Republic, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and the Ukraine on the importance of the digital competence of academics. Digital competence is usually intertwined into a broader didactic competence that can be incorporated into the educational profile of an academic. Aggregated data in the first half of 2018 was compiled using statistical procedures for a group of academics, a group of students, and between both groups in each country, as well as across a multinational set. They point to differences and the consensus in perceiving the importance of digital components that can be used for the targeted further education of academics, setting up a system for the evaluation of studies, and for innovation in the university digital environment.

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“…The new possibilities offered by current technologies strongly influence general skills for defining a suitable solution to a problem. Instead of proposing a suitable solution, pressure will be put on the art of evaluating the obtained data and to be able to interpret their results into the in-house education system (Koleňák et al, 2019;Chmura et al, 2019).…”