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4.5 NATIONAL TRENDS IN DIGITAL PEDAGOGY, DIGITAL
LITERACY AND USE OF DIGITAL RESOURCES – THE CASE

OF LITHUANIA

The most important skill for today’s teachers and trainers is digital literacy. Nowadays
that skill stands above all others and can be a crucial part of the job as the pandemic
times had shown. Basic skills are using Word to create documents, Visual presentation
Prezi, Power Point, Canva designing graphics, presentation, creation assessment,
online quizzes.

4.5.1 TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES TO SUPPORT DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL
SETTINGS
Professional teachers have to meet a wide range of professional requirements and
tasks. On one hand, their role requires conceptual thinking, such as planning, selec-
tion, reflection, and further development of teaching/ learning arrangements. On the
other hand, appropriate practical work experience is required for practice-oriented
teaching in workshop and laboratory sessions. Also, the competence for direct and
spontaneous interaction with the learners to positively influence their learning pro-
cesses is a basic requirement for any teacher. Constructing new personal information
using information processing strategies with the support of digital applications. Organ-
izing and using a personal work and learning environment with digital tools to perform
with adult and vulnerable learners.
It is necessary to be able to give students the right content at the right time and in the
right medium, otherwise there is a risk to lose learners motivation, good performance
or even attendance. Educators have to create learning situations from the process to
the lesson and decide on methods, media, and time frames. It is necessary to check
with Syllabus for delivered learning contents and create a didactical masterplan (distri-
bution of learning situations over the year). Last but not least is evaluation of tasks.
After identifying relevant resources teachers have to question them if those resources
are free, if they are licensed. They have to vet and align the digital resources: is the
information accurate, is it coming from reliable sources, is it high-quality, is it fit for the
objective? It also has to be adapted to the learners needs.

4.5.2 MOTIVATIONAL COMPETENCES
As the main tool used by the trainers to motivate learners to participate in digital train-
ing is providing them with digital badge after completing the online course. Learners
are getting different formats of the badges, based on their activities, and collect them
during the learning in their badge wallets. The certificate is given or after finalising
each course, or at the end of the year. These badges are a good added value to the CV.
Some of the teachers incorporate micro-credentials into their training courses. These
micro-credentials are electronic symbols used for documenting performance and
achievement. They recognise the learning outcomes of the course and achievements
of the learner and are given to the learner after he/she finalizes the course and com-
pletes the assessment test.