Sustainable Learning in Higher Education

  • Rodríguez-Gómez G
  • Ibarra-Sáiz M
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Abstract

Within the context of permanent change, innovation has become a vital value for the survival and development of the organisations. The development of this increasingly important value will help students to gain access to the labour market and to adapt to their future jobs in accordance with these characteristics. Competency describes what training participants should be able to do at the end of such training. Competency is acquired through the various learning objectives to be achieved. Innovation competency is closely related to Self-assessment and the learning methods, Ability to work in interactive communication situations, Ability to create and maintain connections work, Ability to cooperate in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment and Ability to communicate and interact in an international environment, etc. In this chapter, we develop a method for measuring the innovation competencies in higher education by introducing different levels of mastery. 10.1 Introduction Innovation is becoming a requirement for competitive advantage in organisations. Therefore, it is an increasingly demanding and important aspect. Promoting the acquisition of innovation competence is one of the aspects to be solved. The current trend in higher education is improving the creativity and individual thought of students to bring them closer to the world and complex problems that they will fi nd.

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Rodríguez-Gómez, G., & Ibarra-Sáiz, M. S. (2015). Sustainable Learning in Higher Education. Sustainable Learning in Higher Education. Developing Competencies for the Global Marketplace (pp. 1–20). Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-10804-9

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