The European structure of digital competences in Ukrainian society: challenges and innovations

Batyuk Liliya. The European structure of digital competences in Ukrainian society: challenges and innovations. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(11): 481-494. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2017.7.11.044 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/41774 https://zenodo.org/record/7513833 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2017; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 06.11.2017. Revised: 20.11.2017. Accepted: 30.11.2017. UDC 37.016:004+37.091.12.046-021.68:004](07) The European structure of digital competences in Ukrainian society: challenges and innovations Liliya Batyuk Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine lili.batyuk@gmail.com Abstract Digital competences in education not only improve the learning process, but also stimulate changes in the pedagogical process on the path of informatization of Ukrainian education and society as a whole and directly affect the reduction of the «digital divide». In recent years, the position of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Ukrainian society and education has strengthened. In addition to ICT infrastructure, digital content creation and teacher training initiatives, recent curriculum reforms support the use of digital technologies in many subjects. In order for citizens to improve their digital competence, the European Commission has proposed a tool known as The European Digital Competence Framework (DigComp). In this article, we analyze a number of concepts and approaches related to the European structure of digital competences in Ukrainian society and related with it the projects and initiatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on several educational, cultural and disciplinary grounds. Keywords: digital literacy; digital competence; Ukrainian society; digital communication; digital technology