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Delphi: Exploring Online Teaching Key Essential Skills for 21st Century Teachers

The rapid digital development has transformed education resulting in new teaching methods and styles to adapt to this change. Online teaching has been continuously emerging in this 21 st -century era. There have been several studies explaining the skills required for a teacher to be successful in online teaching. However, limited studies investigate the degree of importance of those key essential online teaching skills. This study aimed to explore the necessary online teaching skills by conducting a Delphi study with a panel comprising ten teachers from different subjects. Among the presented six competencies with 47 skill items mentioned in the previous literature study, the panelists selected and ranked 18 skill items as the most crucial for online teaching success. The skill competencies to be the most important respectively are 1) Content, 2) Pedagogy, 3) Design, 4) Communication, 5) Technology, and 6) Management.