Overview
- Explores new challenges facing universities in today's globalized economy
- Examines skill management models, methodologies and innovations from representative universities around the world
- Includes case examples, with implications for practice and policy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (ITKM)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (12 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
In an era of globalization, technological innovation, and social transformations, universities face the challenge of training students with the competencies needed to meet the demands of the market and to successfully integrate into today’s workforce. This book looks at the university as a dynamic source of essential competencies and explores various skill management models, methodologies and innovations applied by educational institutions around the world.
The demands of today’s society represent a major challenge for universities and their teaching staffs. Professors need to adapt their teaching methods to meet these new challenges. For example, universities need to prepare new generations of students with the ability to select, update and use knowledge, rather than processing facts and formulas. Students need to be capable of learning in different contexts and modalities throughout their professional careers and learn to adapt their knowledge to new situations. In response, a conceptual and methodological change has taken place in the university organizational culture and in student curriculums. This book presents a variety of cases and observations on the competencies developed in the curriculums of universities around the world, with the aim to assure that graduates leave fully prepared to face the challenges of the new economy.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Learning in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Developing Competencies for the Global Marketplace
Editors: Marta Peris-Ortiz, José M. Merigó Lindahl
Series Title: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10804-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10803-2Published: 05 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36435-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10804-9Published: 20 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2197-5698
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 172
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Higher Education