Training teachers’ digital skills after pandemic. A start-up study on ‘Didactic technologies’ laboratory at UniBg

Comparative research on initial teacher training (1) confirmed a trend towards 'simultaneous' models, experience-based training activities, the flexible offer, also thanks to digital support. Like any other professional higher education course. In Italy, the 'Primary Education Sciences' master degree qualifies future teachers of kindergarten and primary school through a close integration between university and school environment (2) and experimental organizational solutions that integrate lectures, internships and laboratories, also for what concerns the strength of teachers’ digital skills (3). The pandemic emergency has forced to find new solutions to carry out experience-based training activities in order to guarantee the expected outgoing skills, through online or hybrid methods (4) (5). Many investigations highlighted the effect of pandemic on higher education, among other things, the re-think the technological and digital skills of trainee teachers (6), as well as the positive feedback from students regarding virtual or hybrid laboratories (7) (8).