Digital Skills for Teachers: Policies and Initiatives in Greece

Abstract

The emergent shift of all education activities to online remote teaching and learning (due to the pandemics) revealed the need of having teachers with advanced digital skills. This paper describes long term policies and initiatives to enhance teachers’ digital skills in Greece. A variety of government authorities are responsible to issue and implement policies for promoting digital skills. Thousands of teachers have been trained in integrating digital technologies in their teaching practice. They are from all disciplines and subjects in primary and secondary education. Furthermore, implemented projects offer a huge number of educational resources to support teachers in their teaching practice.