Abstract
The educational community is increasingly recognising the benefits of applying competence-based learning (CBL) in formal and informal training. Both learner-oriented and goals-oriented, competence-based learning encourages flexibility, adaptation and customisation of the learning process to specific learning context and individual preferences. At the same time, various digital environments and ICT tools emerge, successfully supporting the design, implementation and evaluation of CBL educational activities. However, competence-based learning approaches in Higher education (HE) are still underdeveloped, demonstrating the need to share and accumulate more academic experiences.
This article aims to outline how the use of digital tools can promote and facilitate the design and implementation of competence-based courses in the context of higher education. It emphasizes the potential of the learning management systems to track the progress and to be used in the assessment of achievement of different levels of competence development, applied in the 21st Century Skills course design in a digital environment. In particular, we present such a course, developed as part of the Erasmus project Catch21, which will be multiplied in number of universities and HE institutions across EU. The paper focuses on the practical steps for design and implementation of learning activities with digital tools. Finally, the practical recommendations and lessons’ learned for adopting technological tools for the design and implementation of CBL course activities in higher education are identified and explained.
Keywords
- Competence development
- Digital tools
- Higher education
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The research is supported by the “CATCH 21st Century Skills for changing the approach to university teaching” project 2019-1-TR01-KA203-074482, Erasmus+, KA2; the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Research Science Fund project N80-10-18/18.03.2020 “Use of high-tech tools for development of competency models in training” and the National Scientific Program “Information and Communication Technologies in Science, Education and Security”, financed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science.
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Mihnev, P., Antonova, A., Georgiev, A., Stefanov, K., Stefanova, E., Nikolova, N. (2021). Designing a Competence-Based Learning Course with Digital Tools in Higher Education. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Ramalho Correia, A.M. (eds) Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies . WorldCIST 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72660-7_20
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