Sustainable Learning in Higher Education: Developing Competencies for the Global Marketplace

✍ Scribed by Marta Peris-Ortiz, José M. Merigó Lindahl (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 183
• Series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In an era of globalization, technological innovation, and social transformations, universities face the challenge of training students with the competencies needed to meet the demands of the market and to successfully integrate into today’s workforce. This book looks at the university as a dynamic source of essential competencies and explores various skill management models, methodologies and innovations applied by educational institutions around the world.

The demands of today’s society represent a major challenge for universities and their teaching staffs. Professors need to adapt their teaching methods to meet these new challenges. For example, universities need to prepare new generations of students with the ability to select, update and use knowledge, rather than processing facts and formulas. Students need to be capable of learning in different contexts and modalities throughout their professional careers and learn to adapt their knowledge to new situations. In response, a conceptual and methodological change has taken place in the university organizational culture and in student curriculums. This book presents a variety of cases and observations on the competencies developed in the curriculums of universities around the world, with the aim to assure that graduates leave fully prepared to face the challenges of the new economy.​​

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Assessment as Learning and Empowerment: Towards Sustainable Learning in Higher Education....Pages 1-20
Is University Students’ Self-Assessment Accurate?....Pages 21-35
Value Co-creation, Collaborative Learning and Competences in Higher Education....Pages 37-45
A Model for Implementing Non-specific Competencies (NSCs) in Degree Studies, Defined Using a Delphi Study in Spanish Universities....Pages 47-61
Linking the Development of Teamwork and Communication Skills in Higher Education....Pages 63-73
First Contact with the Word of Work: The Competence Built in the Teaching Practices....Pages 75-87
Leadership Development Through Experiential Learning in University Studies at Florida Universit`ria....Pages 89-102
Simulation Games and the Development of Competences. Empirical Evidence in Marketing....Pages 103-111
Feedback and Self-Regulated Learning: How Feedback Can Contribute to Increase Students’ Autonomy as Learners....Pages 113-130
Measuring Competencies in Higher Education. The Case of Innovation Competence....Pages 131-142
Three-Dimensionality in Competencies: The Inclusion of Ethics in the Generic Competency of Teamwork and Leadership....Pages 143-155
Student Opinion on the Application of Active Methodologies....Pages 157-167
Back Matter....Pages 169-172