Designing Integral Learning Outcomes in Higher Education Within the Frameworks of the Competency-Based Approach

Abstract

Uptick of informatization and technologization of society, increased competition both in labor markets and in learning services have caused dramatic changes in higher education and have led to its reorientation from knowledge-centric to the competency-based learning paradigm. Developing and implementing flexible learning paradigm consider one of modern universities’ key priority within the European Higher Education Area. Since the main purpose of modern humanities is to form a conscious and responsible attitude of human being towards own learning and carrier in terms of dynamic changes, the issue of designing integral learning outcomes in higher education, technologization of competency acquisition and its further development in lifelong education becomes especially relevant. The study is aimed at a critical analysis of the modern experience in organizing the learning process on the competency-based approach, disclosing, exemplified by research competence, the end-to-end design technology of integral learning outcomes in the context of the triple system of learning professionals with academic degree.