Dallo sviluppo del concetto di competenza digitale alle nuove prospettive in chiave operativa su cosa significhi, oggi, essere digitalmente competente

This paper translates recent perspectives in Europe on digital competence that attempt to bridgethe gap between research and operational dimensions. In it are analised two mutuallycomplementary phases, that are integrated into the wider European project DigitalCompetenceProject (DIGCOMP, 2012). The first part of the article presents the results of the Online Consultation on Experts' Views onDigital Competence, a survey on the opinions of an international group of experts andprofessionals in the field of digital competence belonging to the academic, political, business worldand IT-education and training field. The objective of the consultation was to help develop acommon understanding among researchers and those working in the field about what being to bedigitally competent means today. The results identify twelve areas that make up the digitalcompetence, and they explain them in detail.The second part of the article introduces the Digital Competence in Practice: An Analysis ofFrameworks report that reported the results of the analysis of 15 case studies, chosen as examplesof good practice in terms of promotion, teaching, assessment and certification of digitalcompetence. The aim is, on the one hand, to clarify the theoretical framework summarizing howthis competence is currently conceived and identifying subject areas that will converge in it and, onthe other hands, to identify potentially functional descriptors.