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Chapter8 EmpoweringUniversityEducators forContemporaryOpenandNetworked Teaching FabioNascimbeni Abstract The chapter explores the competences that university educators should master inour increasinglydigital, openandconnected societies inorder tofill their role effectively and responsibly. Starting from a brief analysis of the concepts of collaborative learningandopeneducation,weanalyse three teachers’competencies frameworks, focusingon thedigital, collaborationandopennessaspectsofcontem- porary teaching.Weconclude that educators shouldnotbuild radicallynewcompe- tencesbutshouldratherupdatetheircompetencesinlinewithemergingneeds.Also, wenotice that someadditionalcompetenceareasshouldbedevelopedbyeducators, if wewant them to be able to bridge thework of students in formal and informal settings.Weproposesixcompetencesareasinthissense:personaldatamanagement, capacity to leverage the openweb, intercultural digital dialogues, critical view on media, digital ethical issues, accessibility. These areas are becoming increasingly important for educators tobeable to critically engage learners in the core issuesof ourdigital, networkedandopensocieties, guiding them—inopenandcollaborative ways—towards solutions to thenewlyemergingproblemsofour times. KeywordsOpenandnetworked teaching ·Highereducation ·Teachers training · Collaborative learning ·Teaching innovation ·Openeducation 8.1 Introduction:ANewRole forEducators inContemporarySocieties We are living in an increasingly open and participatory society, characterised by developments suchas agrowing importanceof informal learning, newunderstand- ingsof intellectualproperty,mixedmodesofculturalexpressionsandamoreproac- tive conception of citizenship (Jenkins, Ito, & boyd, 2015). The impact of these developments on theway people learn is twofold.On the one hand, the pervasive and seamless presence of Information andCommunication Technology (ICT) has F.Nascimbeni (B) Research Institute for Innovation&Technology inEducation (UNIRiTED), Universidad InternacionaldeLaRioja (UNIR),Logroño,LaRioja,Spain e-mail: fabio.nascimbeni@unir.net ©TheAuthor(s)2020 D.Burgos (ed.),RadicalSolutionsandOpenScience,LectureNotes inEducationalTechnology,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4276-3_8 123