Guest editorial: Challenges to the educational field: The emperor has no clothes: The COVID-19 emergency and the need for digital competence

Adriana Gewerc ^[1] ; Donatella Persico ^[3] ; Virginia Rodés-Paragarino ^[2]
1. [1] Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  
  Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  
  Santiago de Compostela, España
2. [2] Universidad de la República
  
  Universidad de la República
  
  Uruguay
3. [3] Institutefor Educational Technology, Genova, Italy
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Localización: Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje: IEEE-RITA, ISSN 1932-8540, Vol. 15, Nº. 4, 2020, págs. 372-380
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This Special Issue of IEEE-RITA on digital competence was under preparation when the COVID-19 pandemic forced educational systems around the world to shift towards Emergency Remote Education (ERE). The emergencyacted as litmus paper for a series of problems that had existed for some time. This introduction analyzes the relationships between the challenges facing the education world in terms of digital competence and similar, with special focus on teachers’ needs of digital competence in relation to ERE. Six international experts from around the world have provided their views on how there search agenda on digital competence should change in light ofthe recent ERE experience. This introduction offers an overview of these contributions, as well as those that, after peer review, have been accepted for publication in this Special Issue.