1st day
This week we started to a new module which is competence based education (CBE). At the beginning we had a friendly discussion with dr. Omar about some general things of the course and that we are under pressure because of too much assignments and reflection and scientific title. After that dr. Omar started talking about the new module and its importance and he explained that in competence based education is not deal with what you learned but how to use what you learned previously.
2nd day
dr. Twana visited us and presented his lecture about competence based education. At first he cleared what we mean by competency, he also mentioned what is mean by (EQF), He also cleared the key competencies that any citizenship in European countries must have. And he mentioned different competencies that is need for applying a job, then he came to teacher competencies and cleared the competencies that any teacher must have in order to teach. He then presented a lecture about the properties of competence based curriculum and how to design a good competence based curriculum that must answer the needs of local area and also disclose what the students can do.
3rd day
Dr. Twana continued speaking about competencies as an education system or as knowledge and he explained different definitions of competency. Then he presented another presentation about strategies of universities in the digital age. The second part of the day dr. Twana presented a brief introduction about bologna process and why we should apply it at our universities and how we can apply it.