Digital Literacy Frameworks in Teacher Preparation: A Review of Adoption and Assessment

Authors

  • Agoston Bencsics Department of Digital Literacy, Bakonyalja Centre for Digital Education, Kisber, Hungary Author
  • Egle-Rasa Gaidamavicius-P Department of Teacher Education, Sirvintos Institute of Learning Technologies, Sirvintos, Lithuania Author
  • Georgi-Iv Chomakov Centre for Education Policy, Zlatni Institute of Learning Technologies, Kavarna, Bulgaria Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22694856

Keywords:

Digital Literacy Frameworks in Teacher Preparation; Educational technology; E-learning; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

Digital Literacy Frameworks in Teacher Preparation has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for digital literacy frameworks in teacher preparation, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than
either broad rollout or blanket avoidance

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