Achieving competence-based curriculum in engineering education in Spain

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1727-1736

  Edwards, Mónica ^a   Sánchez Ruiz, Luis Manuel ^b   Sánchez Díaz, Carlos ^b  

^a INGENIO CSIC UPV Technical University of Valencia   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competences; Curricular development; Engineering education; European Higher Education Area (EHEA); Learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

COMPETENCE-BASED LEARNING; COMPETENCES; CURRICULAR DEVELOPMENT; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION AND TRAINING; EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA; EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA (EHEA); LEARNING;

CURRICULA;

EID: 70349667345     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2026064     Document Type: Article

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