Professional Collaboration

Competent digital educators use digital technologies to engage in collaboration with other educators, sharing and exchanging knowledge and experience, and collaboratively innovating pedagogic practices.

Typical Activities

They use digital technologies to collaborate with other educators, on a dedicated project or task.

They use digital technologies to share and exchange knowledge, resources and experiences with colleagues and peers.

They use digital technologies to collaboratively develop educational resources.

They use professional collaborative networks to explore and reflect on new pedagogic practices and methods.

They use professional collaborative networks as a source for their own professional development.

When mastering this competence doing the work in the lab, you should be able to say:

I use digital technologies to collaborate with colleagues in my organisation, e.g. on a dedicated joint project, or to exchange content, knowledge and opinions.

I use digital communities to explore new pedagogic resources or methods and to get fresh ideas.

I use digital technologies to share and exchange the resources I use, my knowledge and opinion, with colleagues within and beyond my organisation.

I actively use digital communities to exchange ideas and collaboratively develop digital resources.

In the lab we will also

Follow current research on innovative teaching and consider how to integrate research findings into our practice.

We will evaluate, reflect on and collaboratively discuss policy and organisational practice concerning the use of digital technologies.

We will reflect on how to help peers in developing their digital competence.