Boosting employability through the use of Authentic Learning Scenarios

[EN] Education for employability is one of the greatest challenge for Higher education institutions in Europe, but especially in Spain. The European Higher Education Area assumes that competence development becomes crucial to connect higher education curricula with evolving labour market demands. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Fitó Bertran, Angels, Martínez-Argüelles, M.Jesús, Plana-Erta, Dolors
Format: book part
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/125846
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/125846
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Employability
Authentic learning
Generic skills
Financial education
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Summary:[EN] Education for employability is one of the greatest challenge for Higher education institutions in Europe, but especially in Spain. The European Higher Education Area assumes that competence development becomes crucial to connect higher education curricula with evolving labour market demands. The Authentic Learning Scenarios foster the competence development bringing work experience to the formal learning. Considering that online learning methodologies seems to have a relevant role into a life long learning perspective to achieve authentic learning environments is a singular challenge. We have introduced the authentic learnig scenarios attributes into a specific subject and we have tested its impact on students competence profile. Apart from testing if the new subject design is effectively atuthentic, the findings show that when the learning process includes authenticity the students perception about their perfomance in the competence more relevant for the job market improves.