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Translation Technologies: Challenging New Tasks and Competencies for Translators KU Leuven
New translation forms have emerged over the last decades as a consequence of ongoing technological evolution. They raise new questions and pose unprecedented challenges for translators, calling for the creation of new professional profiles. This chapter will introduce a number of these domains, demonstrating some of the technicalities that translators must be familiar with in each of these areas. The fields in question include wiretap ...
Raising the bar. The competencies of specialists in gifted education. Hasselt University
Managerial-leadership competencies for enhancing the integration of innovative teaching-learning technologies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The integration of teaching and learning technologies has been crucial catalysts for undergoing teaching and learning innovations. However, in many higher education institutions, these integration potentials have neither been consistently nor systematically used. The implementation of innovative teaching-learning technological change in higher education remains a significant challenge. Previous studies suggest that universities need to ...
On the hunt for regularities: An investigation of children's early patterning competencies KU Leuven
This PhD research is part of a wider research project, namely the C1 project. The aim of the C1 project is to investigate the integrated development of four core mathematical skills, namely (1) mathematical patterns and structures, (2) computational estimation, (3) proportional reasoning and (4) probabilistic reasoning, in children between four and nine years old. Not only the knowledge and skills, but also the disposition to these four core ...
A comparative analysis of pupils’ and teachers’ financial competencies in five European countries KU Leuven
Exploring career competencies in underprivileged communities. Lessons learned from a study in a South African township school KU Leuven
The objective of this doctoral research is to explore career competencies in underprivileged communties and to develop, implement and test the effectiveness of an evidence-based career intervention programme to promote career competencies in at-risk male and female adolescents in South Africa. The ability to make mature career decisions and being adaptable to occupational transitions is not only of great importance to the individual, but also ...
Effects of using research-based learning on the development of academic competencies of graduate students Ghent University
Professional competencies in engineering education: the PREFERed-way KU Leuven
Professional competencies vary across engineering job characteristics. The design of the educational environment should take into account this diversity and enable students to develop career awareness. The European project PREFER (Professional Roles and Employability for Future EngineeRs) has developed instruments to make engineering students aware of the existence of professional roles and their associated competency profiles. These are ...