Project based learning - strategy for professional competence development in higher education

Abstract

The experience we present in this article shows a project-based learning as a strategy and a di- dactical guarantee for the development of basic skills of competence. In our opinion the project-based learning is an opportunity for effective learning activities and assists students in their attempt to reach a desirable level of academic knowledge and skills, to develop self-control over their own performance. The implementation of the experimental training model on content that is fundamental for different academic programs showed dynamics in individual progress and opportunities for the development of core competences through teaching and learning in non-traditional task environment. Different trends emerge from students’ evaluation of their progress and the dynamics in the learning process, but the leading one is the demand for support to develop skills, to find and use all the components of the environment, to improve their own learning and to form significant competences for modern profes- sions in response of the requirements for competence profile of specialists according to the European Qualifications Framework.