Exploring the Digital Skills Gap Among Bachelor Students: Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement

Digital skills have become an essnstial element for future educators to effectively utilize technology in learning. This article explore the digital skills gap among pre-service teacher. Through a combination of literature reviews and surveys with students, this research identified level of digital skill: basic, intermediate and advance among pre-service teacher to explore challenges and opportunities for improvement across department. Research result obtained variation and that overall digital skills mastery still needs significant improvement. This research identified challenges in enhancing digital skill the pre service-teacher included eliminating the perception that technology is not a priority for pre service teachers, limited time and resource available for formal courses. There found several strategic opportunities in imporvemnet digital skill of pre-service teacher, including innovating the teacher education curriculum by integrating digital pedagogy and technology-enhanced learning modules, leveraging available technologies such as learning management systems, augmented reality, virtual reality and AI-based tools for instructional practice, and forming partnerships with schools, edtech providers, and government agencies to provide hands-on digital training and sustainable support systems.