Training teachers in hybrid mediation. Recruitment reform in Italy and prospects for university training centers

The changing regulatory framework in Italy (Law 79/2022, Decree-Law 36/2022) puts schools and universities facing specific and unprecedented responsibilities with respect to access to the roles of teaching staff and initial and in-service training. In particular, the reform envisages the establishment of training Centers to promote and coordinate continuing teacher training, with regard to methodological and technological/digital skills. The debate appears to be closely intertwined with the need to develop digital media literacy skills to be integrated into the formal education curriculum. The epidemiological emergence from COVID-19 has demonstrated the need to rethink teaching as a mediating action with high potential for hybridization. Prospects for hybrid teacher training will be presented, within the new university training centers provided by the reform, starting from the stimuli of the DidaSco model established at the University of Bari Italy (Italy).