Identifying the Dimensions and Components of Teachers' Digital Competence: A Systematic Review

The present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the dimensions and components of digital competence of teachers. The data was collected through qualitative method of systematic review. The selection of articles was done by keywords based on the opinion of experts and the structure of Prisma, and 38 documents in the form of foreign articles were included in the analysis. The selected corpus was analyzed using thematic analysis and MAXQDA2020 software. The validity of the findings was obtained based on the opinions of the research team, and the reliability of the tool was checked through the reliability index of the evaluators, which showed Kappa coefficient of 0.84. The findings indicated that the digital competence of teachers included 7 dimensions and 27 components. The dimensions included teaching and learning, professional and career development, leadership and interaction, digital thinking, enhancing the learner's digital skills, assessment and individual characteristics. According to the results, it is suggested that technology-based professional training, interactive teaching in virtual environments, and the combination of teachers' digital competencies with extracted components should be given serious attention.