Pleasant Learning Experiences

Author(s):  
Oscar Garcia-Panella ◽  
Anna Badia-Corrons ◽  
Emiliano Labrador-Ruiz ◽  
David Fonseca-Escudero

Both degrees are adapted to the new European framework (Bologna process and European higher education area) in terms of teaching methodologies and evaluation rubrics. The authors listened to the industries. They were told to incorporate soft skills within their layouts, and therefore, they introduced project-based approaches in which students solved real problems coupled with real environmental parameters.

Author(s):  
Robert Martínez Carrasco

This paper presents a classroom experience regarding the use of Wikipedia in a teaching innovation project carried out between Jaume I University and Wikimedia Spain. Framed in the current post-postivist climate within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), Wikipedia will be presented as an inter-disciplinary tool with a relevant number of classroom applications, reflecting how meaningful learning experiences based on collaborative work and authentic project-based tasks lead to better understanding and higher levels of motivation among the students. In the particular case of translation education, it will be argued that using Wikipedia in the course of the reverse translation modules allows the students to gain a deeper insight of its linguistic and discursive structures, as well as the critical/exegetic skills they need in order to assess the kind of texts with which they are commissioned, and the special discursive techniques associated to the translation task.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 485-505
Author(s):  
Iryna Kushnir

This article belongs to a limited body of scholarship concerning inclusion in the Bologna Process. The Bologna Process aims to create the European Higher Education Area with comparable higher education structures within the European Higher Education Area member states. Unlike previous research that focuses on the implementation of one of the Bologna Process inclusion-related action lines (i.e. lifelong learning, student-centred education and social dimension), this article adopts a broader lens, and investigates the evolution of the meaning of ‘inclusion’ in the key international Bologna Process policy documents. This article argues that there is still a lack of clarity around the meaning of ‘inclusion’ in the Bologna Process, and the list of underprivileged groups that the Bologna Process aims to include in higher education, is absent. This article calls for an urgent review of this problem in the Bologna Process at the European Higher Education Area ministerial conference scheduled for 2020 which will set the agenda for post-2020 work in the European Higher Education Area.


2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Boni ◽  
Jordi Peris ◽  
Estela López ◽  
Andrés Hueso

In this article the authors explore power imbalances in a decision-making process to define the contents of a new Spanish degree adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), specifically the industrial design and product development engineering degree which started in the academic year 2009/10 at the Higher Technical School of Design Engineering (ETSID) at the Technical University of Valencia (UPV). They start the article with a description of the tool they used to analyse the power issues: the power cube, developed by John Gaventa. Then, they briefly explain the process of adaptation of the Bologna Process at the UPV in general and at the ETSID in particular. They introduce the methodology used in their research by referring to the type of questions asked and the criteria used to select their informants. Subsequently, they discuss the answers, paying special attention to three aspects: the quality of participation and the quality of the process; the types of power; and the concept of education. Lastly, they propose a series of recommendations intended to improve the quality of participation in deliberative processes at university.


Author(s):  
María Matarranz

Two decades have passed from the Sorbonne Declaration in 1999 to the present day, a period of time in which we have witnessed the great changes that have occurred in higher education systems in many countries of the world, specifically the countries belonging to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).Four countries started by signing the 1999 Declaration, today there are already forty-eight countries involved in the EHEA.In this article, a tour of the milestones that have been shaping and kneading the EHEA is made, addressing the most relevant issues addressed in the different meetings of the ministers of higher education. Next, we will stop at one of the most relevant indicators of the EHEA: the quality assurance systems that, because of the Bologna Process, have been deployed both at the supranational and national levels. We will make an overview of the implementation of educational quality in the countries. Finally, we will reflect on the impact that the perspective of educational quality has had in the countries of the European Higher Education Area. 


Author(s):  
Nina Novikova ◽  
Konstantin Polyakov

The authorsp rovide information on educational systems of the EU countries in the context of harmonization of educational systems of European Higher Education Area countries. The article discloses the main directions of education integration aimed at achieving general strategic goals set in Paris Communiqué and Statement of the Fifth Bologna Policy Forum, signed in Paris in 2018 during the Ministerial Conference and the Bologna Policy Forum. The problems of the internationalization of education, the basic principles of the integration of higher education and study programmes aimed at ensuring quality of training in European higher education area is considered. Particular attention is paid to existing approaches to guarantee the quality of higher education and the formation of quality assessment systems at the international, national and regional levels to create the conditions for sound quality management of education. The features of changes in foreign and Russian education related to the Bologna process and to the development of European integration in higher education are shown.


Author(s):  
Figen Kizil ◽  
Mustafa Cem Babadogan

The idea of establishing the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), aiming to establish a balance between diversity and unity among higher education institutions, started with the Sorbonne Declaration, first published in 1998.The EHEA seeks to ensure that higher education systems are compatible and comparable to one another while preserving their unique differences. This study is aimed to examine the programme competencies of the Department of English Language and Literature. To represent the universe, a state university offering education in English Language and Literature from Turkey’s seven regions are chosen, aimed to create a common language for writing the competencies and correct the existing programme competencies. In order to bring the programmes together on a common ground and to be recognised both nationally and internationally, it is important to ensure that the programme competencies are written in a more simplified way without creating comorbidity and classified in the right sub-categories. The study was carried out with case studies from qualitative research methods.Keywords: European Higher Education Area, Bologna process, Bologna information system, competence.


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