competence based learning

Go beyond Knowledge …Apply Successful!

A philosophy of Competence Based Learning

Ing. M.H.M. Hammer M.Sc.

• The need of change / innovation (Why competence Based Learning?)

• The advantage (Positive arguments)

• The effects (How does it look like?)

• How to get there? (Steps to create a competence Based Learning curricula)

Index

Saxion Universities of Applied Sciences

• Comprehensive university, predominantly undergraduate level

• Focus on profession-oriented education through teaching & undergraduate research

• Professional Masters’ programmes in key fields• Regional focus for most programmes, national profile in key

fields• Quality education under public scrutiny and accreditation • Public funding• History dates back to 1875• 20,000 students, 1,700 faculty and staff• 13 Schools, 5 expertise centres

An international community

Afghanistan Algeria Angola Argentina Brazil Cameroon China Colombia Congo

El Salvador Ethopia Germany Ghana Hungary India Indonesia Iran Finland

Japan Mexico Netherlands Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Rwanda Vietnam

•>1,000 international students, from all over the world.•55 nationalities represented at our university.

School of Business Engineering and Entrepreneurship

Small Business & Retail Management2 year program(Dutch only)

International Supply Chain Management (ISCM)2,5 year program(German/English)

International Entrepreneurship in Technology (Ment:IE)1,5 year program(English)

Master degree programsAssociate degree program

Small Business & Retail Management4 year program (Dutch)1 year post graduate program (English)

Business Engineering4 year program(Dutch only)

Construction management4 year program (Dutch only)

Management for Engineers1 year post graduate program(Dutch only)

Bachelor degree programs

Small Business & Retail Management

• For the last 10 years chosen as the best Entrepreneurship program in the country.

Small Business & Retail Management

• Winner of Dutch Wijnand Wijnen education award for most innovative university program concept.

Small Business & Retail Management

• Winner of several innovation awards for student companies

The need of change

• Dublin Descriptors – Explicit addressed:

• Application of knowledge• Interaction with the society

• Disqualification of the Taxonomy of Bloom– (L.W. Anderson, et al, 2001)

• Feedback from the industry

• 0• 2• 4• 6• 8• 10

O.K.

Not O.K.

Item Figure PerceptionItem Figure PerceptionData

Knowledge

Information

Competent Behaviour

Sense

Innovative

• 3• 5• 8• 10

Source: N. Vloon, 2002

Can successful apply

Successful application resulting in competitive advantage.

Perception from industryPerception from industry

Knowledge / Application ?Knowledge / Application ?

CanKnow

Weight in the curricula

ExampleSee possibilities Tackle

opportunities

Know where to find it.

Successful applicatio

n

The effects

Young people:• Grow up• Finish physical

development• Start intellectual

development• Leading role /

function in society

The Competent EggThe Competent Egg

Knowledge

Application

Behaviour

Talent

Source: N. Vloon, 2002

Structure

Context

Difference in development

Falcon

Source: N. Vloon, 2002GooseGoose

(How to) get there? (!)

1. Determine Critical Professional Situations (CPS).

1. Do research in the professional context; industry, society; local stakeholders

2. National validation of those CPS.

(How to) get there? (!)

2. Transform the CPS into behavioural criteria.

1. Use verbs.2. Get in mind a wide range of context.3. Use the SMART-criteria.4. National, regional and/or local

validation of those behavioural criteria.

(How to) get there? (!)

3. Determine competences 1. Group the behavioural criteria in a

logical way.2. Take the Dublin descriptors into

account.3. National validation of the

Competences.

(How to) get there? (!)

4. Determine the assessments1. Take the CPS for starting.2. Determine the several levels for the

assessments (e.g. propaedeutic phase or post-propaedeutic phase).

3. Use the behavioural criteria as evaluation points.

4. National, regional and/or local validation of the assessments

Placed in a Model

•Assessments

Assessment form

Assessment Settings / Context

Assessment Criteria / Evaluation Points

Thank You for your Attention

For more information, suggestions or cooperation, do not hesitate to

contact:

m.h.m.hammermsc@saxion.nl