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Adela García-Aracil; Rosa Isusi-Fagoaga; Ester Planells-Aleixandre – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
This paper analyzes students' perceptions of how teaching-learning methods influence the promotion of higher education students' social innovation competencies based on a sustainability framework. We focus our analysis on Spain using 'Spanish Universities Involvement in Social Innovation Activities' (SUISIA) data, collected in 2021. For the long…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Competence, Social Change, Innovation
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Saeid Sharifi; Fatemeh Khoshnevisan – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The present study aimed recognition sociocultural competencies in social entrepreneurship of higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a qualitative content analysis technique. In order to identify and select information-rich cases, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 22 experts among the social…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Cultural Context, Social Environment, Competence
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Almutiry, Muhannad; Alshehri, Mohammad Y.; Sayed, Gary – Athens Journal of Education, 2022
Higher education is challenged by workforce needs to transform its outcomes from "knowledge-based" to "competency-based" outcomes. High-impact educational practices, commonly referred to as HIPs, provide, among other benefits, efficacious development of workforce-ready specific competencies. Strategic implementation of HIPs has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Competence
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2013
In 2012, CAEL released the report "Competency-Based Degree Programs in the U.S.: Postsecondary Credentials for Measurable Student Learning and Performance," which examined the current state of competency-based postsecondary education in the U.S., profiling the various types of competency-based, or competency-focused, models that…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Quality
Jones, Faye R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This exploratory study of department chairs, deans, and faculty at extensive research public universities in Florida resulted in the identification of 85 future competencies of department chairs using a human resources perspective. Results include a discussion of the top 20 most important competencies and the top 20 competencies anticipated to be…
Descriptors: Identification, Human Resources, Leadership, Competence
Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2012
Today the U.S. higher education system is facing a crisis regarding its perceived quality. One model for improving quality is competency-based education, in which an institution clearly defines the specific competencies expected of its graduates. A key challenge is how to help more people, particularly adults, succeed at the post¬secondary level…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Success
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Teixeira, Aurora A. C.; Davey, Todd – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
Higher education institutions (HEIs) play an important role in the generation of high-tech "entrepreneurial capacity". As entrepreneurship education gives greater attention to the creation of new ventures, there is an urgent need for a better understanding of the attitudes of students, potentially the entrepreneurs of the future. Logit…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Entrepreneurship, College Role, Student Attitudes
Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Prague, Czech Republic, July 23-26, 2013). The e-Learning 2013 conference aims to…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education