Skills Tracking System as a Digital Solution for Student-Centred Learning (SkillTrack): Recommendations

In digitally oriented pedagogical development processes, the question raises what value a student-centred learning approach can add to higher education teaching and learning contexts in a digital world where working life, competencies and skills needed in the future is changing very fast? SkillTrack project aims to integrate the understanding of self-directed learning, digital learning environments and skills tracking system in higher
education to promote student’s learning experience, by bringing together partner universities from 4 different countries – Rīga Stradiņš University (Latvia), Arcada University of Applied Sciences (Finland), The Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigsburg (Germany), and Baskent University (Turkey).
SkillTrack project team has develop a concept of a pedagogical
framework and methodology in the context of self-directed learning, using a skills tracking system as a tool, to promote evidence-based discussion between public and educational institutions, and employers and to facilitate dialogue to align learning outcomes with the needs of the labour market to reduce skills mismatch.