Miguel Valero García
Lecturer at the Department of Computer Architecture, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
If one had to choose the term most frequently used in the bibliography associated with the European Higher Education Area, the term competence would be high up there among the favourites (in a battle for first place along with terms such as Bachelor, Master's, student-based learning, ECTS, etc.). It is therefore not surprising that one of the most important challenges of the new scenario is the development of competence-based study plans.