Academic learning - a generative model of professional competence. Impact on teaching

Academic learning (AL) has become a priority on higher education experts' agenda. AL generative models have the status of strategic paradigms, focused on exploring the students' conduct map, particularly defined by the qualifications domain, styles, methods and self-management specificity. Our study synthesizes pertinent answers to questions such as: What is AL? What factors determine the students' competences, as result of the authentic academic performances and good practices? The new approaches to AL and its associated competences involve the presence of certain reconstructivist connectivist and functionalist mental models, incorporated by the European Union in the 'earning how to learn' syntagm. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of Masterprof team.