Information, Media and Technology Literacy​

Definition

The way to equip students with the skills needed to educate them as productive individuals in the globalized 21st-century digital world is through integrating digital technologies into educational sciences and curricula (Bardakcı & Keser, 2017; in Hazar, Akkutay, & Keser, 2021). Students of the 21st century need to be educated in the skills, knowledge and expertise that will allow them to succeed in the digital economy (Kivunja, 2014). ​

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European Skills Panorama. Building an Ecosystem for the 21st Century Skills Education in STEM​

The 21st century skills are extremely important in the labour market and STEM graduates’ skills are highly valued. Employers from 29 countries participated in assessing the key employability skills of STEM graduates as needed in the 21st-century labour market. It is essential to identify the skills demanded in the labour market and consider them in the higher education development strategies to ensure the highest possible labour market outcomes for higher education graduates.​

Reference

The Digital Competence Wheel

The Wheel's purpose is to provide an overview of digital competencies and offer concrete tools for how these competencies can be elevated and improved.​ The Digital Competence Wheel is theoretically based on a major EU research project called DIGCOMP, derived from the European Parliament's inclusion of digital competence as one of the eight core competences for lifelong learning.​

Tool

Global Standards for Media and Information Literacy Curricula Development Guidelines ​

This document contains a description of the Guidelines for Media and Information literacy. The primary target groups are policy makers responsible for curricula development and media and information literacy related programmes; curriculum developers and planners, educators, teachers, media and information literacy experts; and any practitioner implementing media and information literacy related curricula.​

Methodology

Drivers and Barriers of Higher Education Engagement in Digital Action: Case Studies From Cyprus, France, Greece, Malta and UK

This synthesis report is an analysis of the findings from the discussions held across fifteen roundtable events and two webinars, in digital action in terms of opportunities and hurdles that were encountered by the participants. The stakeholders were students, academic and research staff, decision-makers, library staff and technical staff. During the roundtables, participants were asked to consider examples of digital action and identify drivers and barriers to digital action. ​

Case Study