STRENGTHENING STUDENTS GENERIC COMPETENCES IN E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

According to the European project Tuning Educational Structures in Europe, learning outcomes should be the central element in the structuring of educational programmes. This paper emphasizes the problems in e-learning environments with special focus on professors' role in providing quality of learning outcomes and usage of methodology that has an aim to foster generic competences of students in e-learning environment. The key skills of 21 century workers include knowledge of different resources as well as the various ways to access them, setting up and applying efficient research strategies, interpreting found results, synthesizing new knowledge and present knowledge in an ethically correct way taking in the all aspects of the ease of use of digital information. Generic competences by their nature are transferable and should be considered as ones that are not specific to any subject field but could and should be applied in any fields equally. Research shows that employers stated lack of generic outcomes of their employees and there is constant development in teaching methodologies that should provide them in more effective way. This paper deals with the questions on methodology approach that provide acquisition of generic competences in real class and furthermore, how can we achieve their procreation in virtual learning.