Developing an Educational Digital Mindset: Voices from an Inter-discipli-nary Community of Practice

Further, Adult and Vocational Education (FAVE) is changing - in the need for new pedagogi-cal responses to digitalization as well as programmes designed to help students acquire the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to prepare them for digitalization and the digital world. It is increasingly clear that FAVE teachers must develop new and different skills and perspectives. Programmes worldwide are responding with innovative models of education and embracing fundamentally different ideas of educational digital pedagogy and curriculum. Yet evidence that these ‘new’ responses are effective is limited and we need additional research to understand the experience and the impact of these models on FAVE teachers. This paper shares the findings from an online questionnaire (Phase 1) of a study of FAVE teachers’ evolving professional identity to become critically reflective digital practitioners. The genesis of this study was pre-COVID but is all the more relevant and pressing now as digital technol-ogies have transformed lives, jobs and organisations.