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The Transformative Role of Innovation in the Higher Education

A Case Study

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The Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Education (ICL 2018)

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The main objective of this paper is to explore the relationship between transformation and innovation in the context of higher education. It is argued in academic theory that the process of changing role of the universities has two dimensions: interdisciplinarity and competency-based development is an integral part of transformation and innovation. In order to explore this relationship, the basic statement of the paper, that innovation has enormous transformative role in the higher education at different levels (curriculum, teaching methodologies, assessment). The contextual background of the paper is a challenge full “skill gap”, which is increasingly strengthening at the Age of 4th Industrial Revolution. This paper adopts a case study approach to analyze the horizontal dimensions of competency-based curriculum planning. The conclusions are drawn from the main analytical results of the theoretical part and the case study approach.

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  1. Budapest Metropolitan University, Budapest, Hungary

    Ferenc Kiss & Vilmos Vass

  2. J. Selye University, Komarno, Slovakia

    Vilmos Vass

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  1. Carinthia University of Applied Sciences , Villach, Kärnten, Austria

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  2. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki, Greece

    Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos

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Kiss, F., Vass, V. (2019). The Transformative Role of Innovation in the Higher Education. In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) The Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Education. ICL 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 917. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11935-5_31

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