Abstract:

The pandemic of COVID 19 which broke out in 2020 and continues until now posed a number of challenges for educators across the Globe as it forced them out of their habitual classrooms into online space leaving no alternative. School teachers and University professors had already accumulated great deal of experience working with digital tools even before the pandemic, however there was little need for digital didactics in wider sense as online instruments were mostly used in addition to classroom teaching. The experience gathered over the years enables educators to look at digital didactics from a research perspective and systematically use it in their teaching experience taking into account the peculiarities of different age groups and their response to technology in the process of learning.

The aim of this paper is to present a theoretical review and analyze the accumulated data on digital didactics and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) from the research perspective as a theory for practical application of teaching and learning methods online. The authors identify the advantages of TEL and the threats it poses to learners and educators as well as ways of eliminating them. The research is mostly focused on teaching and learning foreign languages at University level at an international university.

Keywords:

Digital didactics, digital competencies, digitalization, teaching languages, teaching online, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), digital literacy.