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 bridge the gap between research and operational dimensions. In it are analised two mutually complementary phases, that are integrated into the wider European project Digital CompetenceProject (DIGCOMP, 2012). The first part of the article presents the results of the Online Consultation on Experts' Views on Digital Competence, a survey on the opinions of an international group of experts and professionals in the field of digital competence belonging to the academic, political, business world and IT-education and training field. The objective of the consultation was to help develop a common understanding among researchers and those working in the field about what being to be digitally competent means today. The results identify twelve areas that make up the digital competence, and they explain them in detail. The second part of the article introduces the Digital Competence in Practice: An Analysis of Frameworks report that reported the results of the analysis of 15 case studies, chosen as examples of good practice in terms of promotion, teaching, assessment and certification of digital competence. The aim is, on the one hand, to clarify the theoretical framework summarizing how this competence is currently conceived and identifying subject areas that will converge in it and, on the other hands, to identify potentially functional descriptors.