This study focuses on a central question: “What strategies do students’ use and what difficulties do they feel when organising, in note form, written argumentative texts?” while simultaneously exploring constructivism and on-line collaborative pair work (dyads). The objective is to observe the practices and difficulties felt by students at the University of Aveiro when working on written argume...

Software developer must provide methodical competences as well as social skills. However, standard teaching concepts are often not suitable to impart that knowledge. We introduce an agile concept based on a challenge of industrial style software projects, where students autonomously train desirable competences and skills. Written exams are replaced with a quality assurance of the projects and t...

The NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) has been a driving force in the move to competence-based workforce development in the NHS. Skills for Health has developed national workforce competences that aim to improve behavioural performance, and in turn increase productivity. This article describes five projects established to test Skills for Health national workforce competences, electronic ...

One of the key changes of the European Higher Education Area is the implementation of a competence-based educational system. Students are now more than ever the axis around which the university system orbits. The competences that students should acquire during their studies include transversal competences, which are those competences related to leadership skills, problem solving, and teamwork, ...

In this paper, a conceptual model of the factors affecting competence building in an Engineering university is developed. The extent to which each faculty member can exert his/her potential to the fullest has a profound impact on the overall competences in an Engineering university. Identifying the bottlenecks in the system, which are the inhibiting factors, would lead to concrete solutions to ...

In this paper, we derived competences from previously developed competence models, ensuring the effective use of advanced technologies in future factories to improve sustainability their business models and strategies. Based on analysis Hogan model for leadership, compiled a selection digitalisation, automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, soft such as emotional intelligence cultural lit...