Designing a map of classified learning activities for the customised development of transversal competencies

Abstract

[EN] he creation of the European Higher Education Area has brought about many changes. The most important is related to learning activities, which are considered seriously and in depth. In other words, the student will learn some contents at a certain level through a number of actions or tasks. According to Penzo et al. [1], learning-based teaching can be defined as the teaching organisation based on learning activities.

The proposal for innovation and educational improvement presented in this paper focuses on identifying and classifying learning activities at different levels that reinforce those aspects required for an appropriate scope of the competence. The experience acquired and the application in the classroom of the work developed in previous projects has shown us that each learning activity covers certain levels of the competence. Even the same activity carried out in different courses should be classified into different levels.

The overall aim is to identify the set of learning activities that improve the appropriate scope of the competence. More specifically, the aims to be covered are: 1. Design of the scale to identify levels for the scope of the competence. 2. Identification and classification of activities according to the scale established to build the map of activities.

The design of the map of classified learning activities enables: 1. To have a broad vision of the activities carried out for the development of the competence. 2. To identify overlaps of activities at the same level, which raises the question of whether or not to eliminate any of the activities. 3. To identify levels not addressed by any activity, which encourages the development of activities that cover levels not reached by other activities. 4. To offer the students the map of activities as a tool for their training.

In this way, the map of activities becomes a tool for the students, where they can identify the activities by level and work to a greater extent on the most suitable ones according to their needs and potential.