ECDL – short introduction and status

• ECDL – content, modules, countries, number of participants, tests
• ECDL is developing together with IT development

- ECDL keeps track with IT development and PC operation systems  x generation updates for ECLD (version)
- ECDL keeps track with IT app development  introducing new modules

Digital skills in European context

• EC considers digital skills to be one of the key skills necessary for life, next to literacy and calculating
• People tend to overestimate their skills – surveys from EU developed countries

Digital skills and job market

• Employees report lack of work force with IT skills
• RÚZ, ITAS and SISp memorandum on support of certified education of digital skills

- Despite ever growing presence of IT in various areas of our society, there is ever growing lack of IT experts
- PC skilled employees and their use in work   main orientation of ECDL
- Programmers and specialized IT professions  ECDL offers the computing module

Digital skills education projects in Slovakia

• ECDL in schools – cooperation of SISp with self-governing regions (BSK project)
• ECDL in IT Academy project
• Accredited course for continuous education of teachers, aimed at effective use of digital skills in education

Conclusion

• ECDL as the most widely used certification system of digital skills in the world is:

- Continuously updated and disseminated in line with IT development
- Run on non-profit basis
- Independent from operation systems and apps producers
- Inclusive when it comes to inequality of applicants in terms of education, age, and health abilities

• It makes sense to look for ways how to improve digital skills of students and employees