Digital transformation and local development: reflections on their governance

Abstract

In the Ministry of Higher Education of Cuba (MES) a strategy for Digital Transformation is implemented. The emergence of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, the new requirements for digital technologies incorporated in the new regulations for changing teaching categories, the increasingly dependent use of digital social networks and the need to increase exports of services academics, motivated the development of a group of actions aimed at generating and increasing the digital skills of teachers and students. The article proposes an innovation project for the implementation of a Digital Teaching Competence Reference Framework for the MES. A group of existing frameworks were studied and finally the European Framework for Digital Competence of Teachers (DigCompEdu) was selected as a starting point. The innovation project is supported by a cycle of continuous improvement that foresees the approval of legal regulations that accompany the Reference Framework to design and implement the digital competencies of teachers to have increasingly competent and innovative professionals.