Nowadays, the technological, economic and social transformation affects deeply the labour activity. These changes influence the professional requirements and lead us towards competences. In a changing society, the professional must be adaptable, flexible, and innovative.
These qualities are directly linked to the generic competences. This means that the professional’s development has become a core learning outcome at university. However, professors usually find difficulties to teach them. This is mainly due to the lack of awareness about methodological suggestions to develop these competences.
This book offers didactic strategies and resources to develop generic competences in any subject at university. It focuses in some of these competences, chosen according to the following criteria: usefulness, cross curricular nature, and presence in professional profiles.
The competences selected by the authors are: learning competence, written communication competence, teamwork competence, entrepreneurship competence, and interpersonal communication competence.

CONTENTS EXTRACT

1. Generic competences as an educational aim themselves. Generic competences at university teaching and syllabus
development.
2. Learning competence. Strategies and techniques to learn to learn. Experiential learning. A methodological suggestion to learn to learn. Research-Based Learning.
3. Written communication competence. Why and how to teach written communication competence at university: methodological guidelines.
4. Teamwork competence. Why and how to learn to work with others. Cooperative learning. Theoretical basis and features.
5. Entrepreneurship competence. Entrepreneurship in the knowledge society. Entrepreneurship competence for adult learning. Tiimiakatemia Finnish methodology. Resources, techniques, and tools for entrepreneurs.
6. Interpersonal communication competence. Basic abilities that make us succeed in interpersonal communication. Dialogic learning.
7. Coaching approach for the development of generic competences. Turning into a coach-professor. The Coach-Professor model. Implementation of this new model in Higher Education. Development of competences from a coaching approach.

Lourdes Villardón-Gallego, PhD, is professor at the Didactics and Curricular Development Department at Universidad de Deusto. She has coordinated the group of professors who have contributed to this book. These professors all have a long career path in teaching, research of didactic methodologies, and professor training and counselling.