Clearing the fog from the definition of Digital Literacy : A study investigating what it means to be digitally literate and if students at Jönköping University meet these requirements

Abstract: The current COVID-19 pandemic accentuated knowledge and skill gaps in the digital education field, between both students and teachers. The purpose of this paper is to review old research articles and investigate to what extent these knowledge gaps of digital literacy reach between the students of Jönköping University specifically, as well as the development and evolution of Digital Literacy as a whole throughout the term's existence. To achieve answers to these questions, a literature review was employed to study the development of digital literacy throughout the already conducted research works by substantial names from the field and a semi-structured qualitative interview was created to measure the extent of knowledge that the students at Jönkoping University possessed in the fields of digital literacy, and their desire and dedication to further progress their possessed skill-sets. The results from the study accentuate the necessity and importance of further development of a true digital literacy definition and for it to be properly implemented into the educational curriculum, as the concept and educational frameworks are still in their infancy stages, as the possessed skill-sets, from digital literacy specifically, of the students are not fully developed and their desire to progress only reaches a limited field of interest.