BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to explore the views of family physicians/general practitioners about the most important competences in health promotion and diseases prevention and areas where these competences might be below the desired level. METHODS A qualitative, descriptive study, combining two data collection techniques, was conducted in two Eastern European countries in June and Ju...

Allocating the right person to a task or job is a key issue for improving quality and performance of achievements, usually addressed using the concept of ‘‘competences’’. Nevertheless, providing an accurate assessment of the competences of an individual may be in practice a difficult task. We suggest in this paper to model the uncertainty on the competences possessed by a person using a possibi...

Reflection and reflexivity are key concepts in geomedia education. Reflexive competences (such as reflection on basic technical spatial constructions, appropriation of space towards one’s own learning processes, well general reflexive competences) enable learners to gain deeper insights into geographical issues more mature participation everyday decision making. The pedagogical target teachin...

This article presents the results of mapping the Slovenian pharmacy curriculum to evaluate the adequacy of the recently developed and validated European Pharmacy Competences Framework (EPCF). The mapping was carried out and evaluated progressively by seven members of the teaching staff at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Pharmacy. Consensus was achieved by using a two-round modified Del...

Maintaining and developing competitive advantages in a constantly changing market requires the creation and exploitation of a network of adequate competences. Competence management necessitates both clean formalisation and evaluation of the pertinence of competences. This depends on several factors and involves subjective elements. In this paper, a methodological approach for evaluating compete...

As a growing number of educational institutions are offering online programs, teachers need to be competent in this new way teaching. This is especially the case for synchronous learning through videoconferencing technology, an emergent and so far understudied form education. Based on systematic literature review 30 studies, study identifies 24 competence clusters, which can grouped into 5 teac...

The objective of this research is to investigate the managerial competences for Electronic Commerce professional managers. Three research approaches have been adopted here: Focus Group, Fuzzy Delphi Method. The results indicated that professional skills and leadership competence are more important than other competences such as administrative skills and motivation. Comparing the competences of ...

Research into and practice of Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) have been increasing during the last two decades. These have focused on providing sustainability education to future generations of professionals. In this context, there has been considerable progress in the incorporation of SD in universities’ curricula. Most of these efforts have focussed on the design and deliv...

OBJECTIVE A literature review was made to construct a proposal regarding the concept of competences-based learning in higher education. METHODS The pertinent literature published in Spanish and English in databases such as Medline, Redalyc, SciELO and Academic Google, as well as material in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, reference centers and books was searched using keywords. The data...

The case presented in this paper is framed within the context of Work by Modules taken during the first year-first semester of the Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering Degree at the University of Zaragoza, and its objective is to improve the processes involved in information management required to perform this work. For this purpose, the design of a personal learning environmen...