The Digital Competence as a Cross-cutting Axis of Higher Education Teachers’ Pedagogical Competences in the European Higher Education Area

Abstract The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) establishes a new educational paradigm centered on student and learning. It involves fundamental changes in university professor's professional tasks, therefore, they should adapt their professional profile according to the new context demands, specially those derived from the impact of ICT over it. Fruit of the convergence of two research projects that combined diverse research tools and techniques in real HE contexts, we have reflected on our findings and conclusions to build a pedagogical competences profile for HE teachers, more adequate to the current context and new training scenarios, incorporating a set of digital competences that we found as cross-cutting axis, not only for the teaching role, but for the rest of the professional roles that rise up as relevant in the recent educational context drawn by the EHEA and the Knowledge Society (KS).