ETF Digital Education Reform Framework

Developed under the Creating New Learning initiative, the ETF’s Digital Education Reform Framework (DERF) aims to support policy makers in designing robust digital education policies that are tailored to contemporary digital ecosystems. DERF pays particular attention to initial and continuing vocational education in the context of developing and transition economies. It can be used not only to design new policies but also to evaluate existing ones.

DERF identifies nine focus areas and eight critical factors for digital education policies and reforms.

• Focus areas: digital infrastructure, digital competences of educators, digital capacity of schools, digital pedagogy and curriculum, digital educational resources, digital learning environments, digital assessment, digital competences of learners, and digital credentials.

• Critical factors: data for policy making, digital inclusion, stakeholder engagement, financing, quality assurance, environmental sustainability, teachers and learners' wellbeing, and foresight capacity.

Resources: ETF policy briefing introducing DERF: Fostering human-centric and future-proof digital education policies; DERF full text: ETF Digital Education Reform Framework

Find out more on ETF Open Space about the ETF Digital Education Reform Framework and the way it's been used in some of our partner countries (Algeria, Moldova)

To cooperate with us, please contact the ETF's Creating New Learning team: NewLearning@etf.europa.eu