BACKGROUND Primary health care is considering the cornerstone of health care in Chile. Its efficiency is strongly influenced by the quality and competences of physicians that are responsible for health care at this level. AIM To define the features and competences that should have primary care physicians. MATERIAL AND METHODS A group of experts that could be physicians or other professional...

Human factor is the element that produces more deviations in the costs of information technology (IT) projects. Recently, a gap between the competences required from the IT industry and the competences taught in the computer science university degrees has been proposed as a possible explanation to it. This paper further investigates this issue following several steps. First, through a questionn...

Organizations pursuing development of their competences must balance the pursuit of mastery in the present against the potential of innovations that may enable success in the future. In the present, key competences can be identified as work practices essential to the satisfaction of customers and other stakeholders. These competences may be improved incrementally, and/or more widely disseminate...

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, ...

Collaborative design in dispersed groups of engineers creates various kinds of challenges to technology, organization and social environment. Selected examples are knowledge sharing, coordination support or secure tool integration (Jacucci, Pawlak, & Sandkuhl, 2005). Work presented in this chapter is located in the area of formation of teams for collaborative design. The challenge addressed is ...