%0 Journal Article %T E-learning Competencies for Teachers in Secondary and Higher Education %A Sebastiaan Jans %A Val¨¨re Awouters %J International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) %D 2009 %I Universit?t Kassel %R 10.3991/ijet.v4i2.739 %X Teaching and learning with ICT requires specific competencies for teachers and lectures. Too much attention was given to the technological aspects. Teachers learned to work with hard- and software. A typical example is the European Computer Driving License (ECDL). A lot of people attend courses on text processing, spreadsheets,¡­ but using a Virtual Learning Environment like e.g. Blackboard or Moodle demands more didactical than technical skills. Especially e-learning and blended learning is too demanding to let teachers learn to use these tools only by experimenting. More and more is generally accepted that the e-learning competencies for teachers require a longer course. Which competences and how these can be realized is the main focus of this paper? Besides the theoretical background, two examples will be showed. %K digital %K didactics %K e-learning %K competencies %K european %K computer %K driving %K license %K information %K communication %K technology %K ict %K postgraduate %K e-learning %U http://online-journals.org/i-jet/article/view/739