Title :
An improved way for evaluating competences: A different approach to project management learning
Author :
Crespo, E. ; González-Marcos, A. ; Alba-Elias, F. ; Castejón-Limas, M. ; Ordieres-Meré, J.
Author_Institution :
Mech. Dept., Univ. de la Rioja (UR), Logrono, Spain
Abstract :
This paper presents a formal initiative for monitoring the competence acquisition by a team of students with different backgrounds facing the experience of being working by projects and in a project. These students are inexperienced in the project management field and they play this game on a time-shared manner along with other activities. The goal of this experience is to make some improvements in determining the competence levels acquired by means of how the work is being done. The use of this information, which is out of the scope of this particular work, could make possible to bring additional information to the students involved in terms of their individual competencies and the identification of new opportunities of personal improvement.
Keywords :
engineering education; game theory; project management; competence acquisition; engineering student; formal approach; project management learning; student team; Collaboration; Engineering education; Lead; Monitoring; Problem-solving; Project management; Software tools; Project based learning (PjBL); competence development in project management; computer based approach; interdisciplinary learning;
Conference_Titel :
EUROCON - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7486-8
DOI :
10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929219