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Janssen et al.'s twelve-element digital competence model

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A twelve-element framework developed by Janssen et al. to organise technical, integrative, ethical, societal, learning-related, decision-making, self-efficacy, and dispositional dimensions of digital competence.

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  • Janssen et al.'s twelve-element digital competence model organises core, supportive and dispositional competencies as building blocks: Janssen et al.'s (2013) Delphi study of 95 experts from academic, education, government/policy and IT business sectors identified twelve elements essential to broadly-based digital competence, summarised in the article's Table 1 (e.g., functional, integrative, specialised, communication and collaboration, information management, privacy and security, legal and ethical, technology and society, learning with and about technology, informed decision making, coherence/self-efficacy, dispositional). The article reports they conceptualised each element as a 'building block', with core competencies enhanced by networking and information management capabilities and parallel supportive competencies covering legal/ethical, societal-impact and dispositional factors. The TDC framework builds directly on this model by positioning its general competencies within teacher education. (Garry Falloon (2020))

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  • Garry Falloon. (2020). From digital literacy to digital competence: the teacher digital competency (TDC) framework. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09767-4
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