Today, students at universities in advanced countries typically enroll in colleges, such as the College of Education, which offer interdisciplinary programs for undergraduates in their first and second years, allowing them to explore personal interes...
Objective: The professional competence level of pre-service childcare teachers influences the quality of future childcare services. However, due to the lack of necessary assessment tools, this study aims to develop a professional competence scale for...
Professional competency frameworks are important for aligning educational outcomes with workforce needs. While multiple frameworks exist across sectors, the underlying research-informed design principles guiding their development remain fragmented. T...
This study identifies the key competencies considered important for construction professionals and examines differences in their perceived importance across work-experience groups. A literature review and expert review informed a questionnaire compri...
Research has consistently shown that the instructional skills, or competencies, that teachers bring to the table influence the opportunities students have to learn. Teachers build those competencies over time, often through professional development (...
The competency level of safety professionals directly impacts the effectiveness of accident prevention and control within enterprises. Establishing a systematic talent development framework and knowledge architecture is the key pathway to enhancing c...
System Innovation (SI) is a critical approach in driving individual and collective actions towards sustainable development (SD). This article presents the validation process of the Climate-KIC Professional Competence Framework (CF) for SI. This frame...
There has been significant reform of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements for Irish pharmacists over the past five years. In 2015, a new system was established that includes quality assurance of practitioner engagement in CPD an...
Background: The aim of nursing education in Germany is the development of different competences, including professional identity. To promote this, the use of collegial consultation in the form of collegial advice is recommended. How collegial advice...
Lifelong learning among healthcare practitioners is crucial to keep abreast of advances in therapeutic and service delivery approaches. In South Africa, continuous professional development (CPD) was mandated (2019) for re-registration of pharmacists...
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Physically Active Learning (PAL) integrates physical activity into classroom teaching and has been shown to benefit students’ cognitive, social, and academic outcomes. Despite these advantages, PAL is not yet sustainably implemented in everyday...
This study builds on a research-practitioner partnership embedded within an education for sustainable development (ESD) project and aims to explore the major potential challenges (i.e., disciplinary boundaries set by subject specialization, especiall...
Higher education (HE) educators have rapidly adopted generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for instructional design (ID), yet evidence on this educator-facing use remains scattered. This PRISMA-guided qualitative systematic review synthesises 78...
Synchronous Online Teaching (SOT) is becoming increasingly popular, but research shows many teachers are inadequately prepared, calling for greater investment in professional development (PD). Additionally, there is a significant gap in research syst...
The development of competency frameworks serves as the foundation for the development of competency-based education. It is vital to develop a country-specific framework to address the specific needs of the local population for pharmacy services. This...
Background: Nursing regulation is a key component of health system governance; however, its role in structuring the development and deployment of professional competencies remains insufficiently examined, particularly in emerging health systems. Obje...
The implementation of competency-based medical education (CBME) focuses on learners’ competency outcomes and performance during their training. Competencies should meet the local demands of the healthcare system and achieve the desired patient-...
Higher-order thinking in science education requires teachers to integrate disciplinary knowledge with pedagogical practices that support students’ reasoning, problem-solving, evaluation, and reflection. This paper examines the development and o...
Teacher’s professional competencies have been discussed extensively in the literature, often linked to educational policy discourses, teaching standards, student learning outcomes, or the intended outcomes of teacher education. Extensive, but fragmen...
Currently, all members of the educational community have a relevant role in the development of professional competences on the sustainability of students. This is supported by the findings obtained by different research studies carried out in differe...
In the beginning of 2015, a consortium consisting of 13 Danish municipalities with 240 schools, almost 80,000 students and 10,000 professionals together with a university based research institution and a competence development center launched the sch...
Previously, coffee baristas only needed to learn basic coffee brewing skills. Today, in addition to coffee brewing skills, baristas also need to be able to identify the quality of coffee beans, select the appropriate way of roasting specific beans, a...
Teachers’ digital competence is central to inclusive, high-quality education, yet little is known about how its dimensions relate to one another and to teachers’ perceived teaching effectiveness (PTE). Drawing on the European Framework fo...
The present research is embedded in the professional development and research line, and in the needs of secondary education and first-year university teachers. Evidencing the importance of teachers’ professional training to include specific ada...
Background: Digital health and artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly transforming rehabilitation practice, creating an urgent need for rehabilitation professionals to develop new competencies through continuing professional development (CPD). Desp...
The lack of teacher retention directly impacts the sustainability of a nation’s educational goals and educational system. There are several influences on the retention of teachers, such as career advancement opportunities, job satisfaction, and...
Developing sustainability competences is an important endeavor for education, as competence development can be complex and requires appropriate approaches. In the case of preparing future educators, this becomes even more important, because of their...
Background/Objectives: Strengthening management competencies are essential to ensure effective and equitable Primary Health Care (PHC) systems. Emerging perspectives suggest that effective leadership in PHC could benefit from integrating cognitive, e...
Initial teacher education is increasingly expected to prepare pre-service teachers for ongoing professional development and teacher research, yet it remains unclear how systematically these competences are embedded in programmes and how prepared pre-...
Facing interlinked environmental, social, and economic crises, advancing sustainability requires more than institutional reforms; it demands transforming individual mindsets, behaviors, and competencies. This study positions the individual as a centr...
This article explores contemporary models of the development of methodological competence, focusing on the needs of IT discipline teachers. The challenges in implementing these features within modern educational conditions are identified, underscorin...
Norway ranks high in digitalization in schools, with over 90% of students in grades 1–10 having their own digital device supplied by their school districts and reporting the highest use of digital tools globally in the latest PISA report. Howev...
The global workforce needs to be competent, flexible, adaptable, sustainable, and patient-focused. A competency approach towards education, development, and professional practice strengthens services and increases better health outcomes. This paper w...
STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) education is gaining increasing attention worldwide, with many initiatives being implemented to promote its adoption and effectiveness; thus, its successful integration into educational...
Background: Nurses’ teaching skills in the clinical setting are crucial to ensuring that students receive high-quality training. Despite the growing importance of competency frameworks, there is little research on the relationship between nurse...
Competency-based education is designed to produce quality graduates and competent practitioners in social work. However, comparative studies to identify how social work education adapts to demands in practice from employers in coordination with the d...
In the Spanish context, Sports Sciences education is evolving to emphasize competency-based learning, crucial for adapting to the dynamic global landscape and labor market. This opinion article highlights the shift towards integrating generic and spe...
The importance of embedding education for sustainable development has been emphasised over many years. At the same time, there has been a massive call for initial teacher education to provide all student teachers with the core of professional compete...
Competency-based education (CBE) “derives a curriculum from an analysis of a prospective or actual role in modern society and attempts to certify students’ progress on the basis of demonstrated performance in some or all aspects of that role”. This p...
Over the last ten years, pharmacy practice has changed significantly in Canada. It is more important than ever to ensure that the profession engages in continuing professional development in order to keep up with changing practice and changing public...
The role of social-emotional competence in sustaining teachers’ professional development has been increasingly gaining prominence. Using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, this study attempted to explore the deep internal mechani...
As medication experts, pharmacists are key members of the patient’s healthcare team. Pharmacists must maintain their competence to practice to remain responsive to the increasingly complex healthcare sector. This paper seeks to determine how competen...
Technological and organizational transformations are increasing the need to understand how professional competencies are developed, assessed, and mobilized over time. This systematic review examined participatory, situated, and reflective approaches...
This study investigates the essential competencies for engineers in the context of digital transformation, with the aim of proposing a refined framework to guide professional development across career levels. A mixed-methods, sequential approach was...
Extended Reality (XR) technologies—including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR)—offer transformative opportunities for education by enabling immersive and interactive learning experiences. In this study,...
This research systematically analyzes the effects that global megatrends, digitalizing economy, and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic are having on the transformation of professional career management and changing professional skills for achieving car...
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...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) has become a key driver of digital transformation in the construction sector, increasing the demand for professionals capable of managing BIM-enabled projects across their entire life cycle. However, despite the g...
Cotton is more chemically intensive than many other commodities, which negatively impacts rural livelihoods at higher rates. Improvement in environmental stewardship of cotton would substantially impact the long-term sustainability of agriculture in...
This study examines the intercultural competence of Greek primary school teachers and early childhood educators enrolled in the Joint Master’s Program Intercultural Education & Mediation at the University of Patras. Using the Intercultural...
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