Future Learning Spaces: New Ways of Learning and New Digital Skills to Learn

This article discusses the elements of and requirements for digital competence for learning in a knowledge-based society, where Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a key role. Key challenges for future learning are both the need for new digital skills and the provision ofnew ways for learning and maintaining them. Realising the potential of future ICT-enabled learning requires digital competence on the part of the learners, including both basic tool usage skills and higher order skills for their efficient, critical and innovative application. But it also involves other participants in the learning process as the future ICT-enabled learning spaces in themselves support building and improving this competence with the help of peers and experts.JRC.J.4-Information Societ