Spanish educational legislation on cultural diversity has shifted in five decades from homogenizing frameworks to an explicit commitment to inclusion and interculturality. This article reports a qualitative documentary analysis of state laws and Roya...
Integrative learning and competency-based education are both evolving as major themes in education. Integrative learning emphasizes that knowledge from different domains and contexts are brought together to enhance the learner’s experience. The...
Meta4CBC is proposed as an innovative metamodel for competency-based curriculum design in higher education, addressing the critical need to adapt curricula to contemporary challenges driven by globalization, technological advancement, and climate cha...
Background: Rapid advances in dental medicine necessitate a shift from traditional educational paradigms to competency-based education (CBE), which emphasizes the acquisition of specific clinical and professional skills. Aim: This study examines the...
This study advances the conceptual and practical scope of social education by integrating Security and Safety Education (SSE) categories into its theoretical foundation. We demonstrate that SSE encompasses multidimensional areas highly relevant to so...
Manikin-based simulation is widely used in undergraduate medical education to develop clinical reasoning and communication skills. The Borich Needs Assessment Model has been applied in fields such as nursing and global health to identify gaps between...
Climate change, rapid urbanization, land-use changes, and the creation of a multi-layered risk environment by multiple disaster hazards have made interdisciplinary educational models—capable of integrating resilience knowledge into planning and...
Implementation of competency-based pharmacy education (CBPE) is a time-consuming, complicated process, which requires agreement on the tasks of a pharmacist, commitment, institutional stability, and a goal-directed developmental perspective of all st...
This paper presents a structured strategy for integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into university courses by linking them to competencies and learning outcomes. The proposed methodology, based on fuzzy logic, evaluates the degree of...
A key determinant and outcome of successful environmental education is ‘pro-environmental behavior’, i.e., behavior that involves conscious action to mitigate adverse environmental impacts at personal or community level, e.g., reducing re...
Amid structural changes driven by the greening and digital transformation of the maritime industry, the demand for career transitions of seafarers with onboard experience to shore-based positions—particularly ship superintendents—is stead...
The 12-Year Basic Education Curricula not only follow the objectives of previous curriculum syllabus development, but they place more focus on competence-oriented instruction, which aims to emphasize the importance of combining the curriculum with li...
Global education (GE) has become important in education due to heightened global interconnectedness and interdependence, with its incorporation into school materials aimed at preparing learners to navigate global challenges. In implementing GE, teach...
In this article the design of three master programs (MSc in Pharmacy) and two postgraduate specialization programs for community or hospital pharmacist is described. After a preceding BSc in Pharmacy, these programs cover the full pharmacy education...
The competency-based medical education (CBME) curriculum was introduced recently for undergraduate courses in medical institutions in India. The program needs a paradigm shift in the teaching and assessment methods. Therefore, challenges at the indiv...
Undergraduate programs face the permanent challenge of constantly transforming to keep an up-to-date curriculum according to globalization and internationalization processes. In the case of civil engineers, professional training should respond to the...
(1) Podcasts are increasingly used in undergraduate medical education. They differ from traditional learning activities and may influence exam performance. Podcasts also offer insights into learning behaviour and perceptions of family medicine (FM)....
The consortium of “The Future is in Applied Artificial Intelligence” Project designed the first competency-based applied artificial intelligence curriculum at the higher-education institution level. The development was based on advanced s...
(1) Background: This qualitative study aimed to identify and describe course components which affect a student’s motivation to learn within a blended-learning competency-based curriculum. (2) Methods: The data were gathered via two consecutive semi-s...
We developed and validated an animation-based assessment (ABA) method for evaluating high school students’ inquiry competencies in Taiwan’s 12-Year Curriculum. Contextualized in atmospheric chemistry involving methane and hydroxyl radical...
Palliative care competencies at the pediatric resident training level expand learned knowledge into behavior. The objective of this study was to investigate mode of palliative care education delivery preferred by pediatric residents and to report on...
19 October 2021
Background: The nursing curriculum should be systematically developed to improve the evidence-based practice (EBP) competencies of undergraduate nursing students. We attempted to identify the factors important for developing or improving the EBP-inte...
In order to meet the expectations to act as an expert in the health care profession, it is of utmost importance that pharmacy education creates knowledge and skills needed in today’s working life. Thus, the planning of the curriculum should be based...
Higher education programs are increasingly expected to show not only where sustainability appears in the curriculum, but also how it is sequenced, assessed and monitored. This study develops and applies a document-based curriculum audit for tracing d...
Pharmacists in Poland are responsible for the dispensing and quality control of pharmaceuticals. The education process in pharmacy is regulated and monitored at the national level. Pharmacy education at Jagiellonian University is organized in a tradi...
This study explored the positive effects of a six-week Social–Emotional and Ethical Learning® (SEE Learning) program on resilience and social and emotional competences, adapted for elementary students in Daegu, South Korea, a region strongl...
This paper offers content priorities, justifications, and pedagogical approaches for the integration of climate change education into the training of teachers, and thus into public schooling. To meet urgent imperatives presented by the polycrisis of...
This study assessed the depth, breadth, and perception of toxicology education in curricula at Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) member veterinary schools. An online questionnaire was sent twice to all 54 AAVMC members and s...
Professional students need to train in online interprofessional collaboration (IPC). During a longitudinal evaluation for 2018–2022 of an interprofessional learning (IPL) curriculum, nearly 7000 students from health, social care, and teacher ed...
Background: Competence, while firmly established as a primary conceptual framework in nursing education, continues to lack clarity and uniformity across borders and contexts. While a wealth of research has been carried out on the various dimensions o...
Despite ongoing curriculum and assessment reforms, secondary school Accounting education in many Global South contexts continues to reflect limited pedagogical transformation and weak curriculum coherence. In Lesotho, policy frameworks such as the Cu...
Background/Objectives: New licensing regulations for dentists in Germany offered the opportunity to modernize the dental curriculum regarding content, methodology and structure. This paper aims to evaluate the newly requested preclinical curriculum &...
The ongoing process of digitalisation requires teachers not only to use technologies in their lessons to provide high quality opportunities for learning, but also to learn through this format themselves. In recent years, a new competence-based curric...
The integration of sustainability competences into education presents significant challenges, particularly in embedding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into contextually relevant learning experiences. This study presents the design and va...
The progressive shift from a transmissive to a competence-based approach emphasises the need to design new models and tools for competence assessment. In order to address this need, this study, firstly, introduces the assessment model for digital com...
The growing acceleration of socio-ecological crises has increased demands for higher education to move beyond disciplinary teaching toward competence-based sustainability education. In science teacher education, this shift requires not only aligning...
The integration of STEAM education is widely recognized as a pathway to foster creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration, yet its implementation remains fragmented due to systemic and organizational barriers. This study examines educators’...
This study examines complex thinking as a higher-order cognitive competence in international graduate education. Drawing on Edgar Morin’s theoretical perspective, it analyzes how master’s students perceive this competence through four int...
Educating is an action of using knowledge to assist students to address their real-world personal needs, generating unique personal skills and values. Digital images, as images that consist of picture elements, have become important resources for sus...
The COVID-19 revolution has demanded that higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, as in most other countries globally, migrate to a digitalised curriculum (DC). The DC is a plan for or of digital technology-driven education. The COVID-1...
This study aims to explore through a qualitative thematic analysis the reflections of six animal protection and wildlife conservation NGOs in Romania regarding the development of the first specialized master’s degree program in ethology and human-ani...
4 August 2022
Objectives: Accurate self-assessment and -reflection of competencies are crucial skills for all health professions. The National Competence-Based Learning Objectives Catalogue (NKLM) guiding medical faculties in Germany points out reflection as a non...
In response to problems inherent in conventional hydraulic engineering education including compartmentalized courses, fragmented knowledge delivery, overlapping and omitted content, and insufficient development of students’ integrated practical...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector. However, AEC education remains rooted within traditional disciplinary boundaries and a technology-centric training model, creating a widening misma...
26 June 2020
Objective: The study intended to combine team-oriented, problem-based learning (PBL) with emergency-care simulation to investigate whether an integrative intervention could positively impact the core nursing competencies and teacher performance of nu...
The accelerating transformation of the tourism and hospitality industry requires higher education institutions to equip graduates with market-aligned competencies, yet the effectiveness of hospitality education programs across national contexts remai...
This study introduces a new approach for the competence development of the socio-technical aspect. The curriculum of the Project Management (PM) course taught in degree programs concentrates largely on imparting technical knowledge. Current research...
The changing role of the pharmacist led to some improvements of pharmacy education worldwide these last years. Curricula have evolved and the content-based education has been converted into a competency-based education. The definition of a global pra...
This study explores how artificial intelligence (AI)-driven labour market analytics can support the alignment of university curricula with emerging skill demands and inform the development of targeted micro-credentials. A mixed-methods approach was a...
The digital transformation of education necessitates the integration of digital competences into teacher training programs, particularly in subjects such as mathematics, informatics and information technologies. This study explores how digitalisation...
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